10 Recent Underrated Movies That Deserve A Second Chance

Olivia Wilde's directorial debut deserved so much better than it got. Hopefully, in the next few years it will be absorbed into popular culture in the way it has the potential to, but little to no marketing meant it never really had a chance on release. It did manage to gross $24 million off a budget of only $6 million, but over $22 million of that was from North America alone. Booksmart is decent at home, but absolutely dreadful when it plays away.

If Ingrid Goes West is an update on the sensibilities present in Juno, Booksmart is the Superbad of the late 2010s.

The story revolves around two bookish high-school girls, Amy and Molly, who have been friends since childhood. They've never really been part of the popular scene, they don't get invited to parties, and they don't have anyone but themselves and their studies. Upon learning that most of the party girls in their class got into great colleges despite blowing off steam, they decide they need to make up for lost time.

They attend a graduation party and try to absorb all the fun they should have been having in high school in just a single night.