Highschooler Nadine is not exactly a beauty queen and everything sucks both at home and at school. On top of that, her best friend is dating her brother. Nadine feels lonely, and was it not for that one nice classmate, she'd die of boredom. The world around Nadine doesn't seem that bad anymore, but how to let her new friend know that she likes him? Kelly Fremon's coming-of-age comedy won the New York Film Critics Circle award.