Eighth Grade is a 2018 American coming-of-age comedy drama film written and directed by Bo Burnham in his feature-length directorial debut. It stars Elsie Fisher as Kayla, a teenager attending middle school who struggles with anxiety but strives to gain social acceptance from her peers during their final week of eighth grade .

Eighth Grade: Directed by Bo Burnham. With Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan. An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.

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Kayla Day is an eighth-grader in her final week of middle school in White Plains, New York. She posts motivational videos on YouTube about confidence and self-image that get almost no views, while struggling at school to make friends, and winning the …

Jul 13, 2018 · “Eighth Grade,” the extraordinarily assured feature film debut by writer-director and standup comedian Bo Burnham, starts out with one of these videos and it is so touchingly real, so embarrassingly true to life, you might swear it was improvised, or found footage. But it’s not.

Eighth grade (also 8th Grade or Grade 8) is the eighth year of formal or compulsory education in the United States of America. The eighth grade is the second, third, or fourth (and typically final) year of middle school. Students in eighth grade are usually 13–14 years old. Different terms and numbers are used in other parts of the world.

Eighth Grade. Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school—the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year—before she begins high school.

Elsie Fisher shines as an anxious teen striving for acceptance while navigating her last week of eighth grade in this coming-of-age drama. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.

Experience Kayla's cringeworthy yet heartwarming journey through eighth grade in White Plains, New York. Eighth Grade follows her struggles with social media, crushes, and finding herself amidst the chaos of adolescence.