Disney Plus: Everything Coming To The Streaming Service - Ranked

24. Stargirl

Grace VanderWaal
By UPROXX (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKWwuptcXhE) [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Based on Jerry Spinelli popular YA book of the same name, the movie follows Stargirl Caraway, "a homeschooled teen who enrols in an Arizona high school, altering the ecosystem of the student body with her nonconformity."

Playing the titular teen is America's Got Talent winner Grace VanderWaal, who is very much the prototypical Disney star in the making. Julia Hart (Miss Stevens) directors from a script by Kristin Hahn (The Yellow Birds), with support from Graham Verchere and Giancarlo Esposito.

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NCTJ-qualified journalist. Most definitely not a racing driver. Drink too much tea; eat too much peanut butter; watch too much TV. Sadly only the latter paying off so far. A mix of wise-old man in a young man's body with a child-like wonder about him and a great otherworldly sensibility.