If you loved Eighth Grade, try That's What I Am
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. That's What I Am has roughly 8.3× fewer votes than Eighth Grade — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theysit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Eighth Grade, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What That's What I Am is
Ah, the joys of early adolescence. In 1982, a popular eighth-grader is partnered with a social outcast for a class assignment, prompting a series of misguided adventures. It's a movie about the universal traumas of being thirteen, but set in the early eighties for some reason.
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