A Teen’s Sketches Come To Life During Her Affair With Mom’s Boyfriend

The trailer for The Diary of a Teenage Girl , adapted fromPhoebe Gloeckner ’s lifelike novel by first - metre managing director Marielle Heller , is here . Doe - eyed Bel Powley stars as Minnie , with Kristen Wiig as her mother and Alexander Skarsgard as Monroe , aka Mom ’s Boyfriend Who Is Into Teen fille . Here ’s a abstract :

Set in 1976 San Francisco , THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL set about at the crossroads of the melt hippy movement and the morning of punk rock and roll . tidings comment of the Patty Hearst visitation echoes in the background , as Minnie ’s young expressive eyes soak in a drug - laden city in conversion — where adolescent rebellion and adult obligation clash in characters lost and yearning . Minnie ’s hard - partying mother and absent male parent have left her rudderless . She first finds solace in Monroe ’s seductive smile , and then on the backstreets of the city by the bay . life serves a sanctuary from the puzzling and unstable world around her . Minnie emerges defiant — take command of her sexuality and drawing on her newfound creative talent to reveal true statement in the kind of intimate and vivid detail that can only be found in the pages of a teenage girl ’s diary .

The flick , which look to have a Ghost World - sports meeting - Juno affair die on , hits theaters in August .