Director Amy Poehler Sparks a High School Revolution on Netflix

We've got a brand new trailer for Moxie. That is one in all Netflix's many, many authentic films coming down the pipeline in 2021. On this case, they've reunited with Amy Poehler (Saturday Evening Stay, Parks and Recreation) for a brand new comedy. Poehler not solely stars within the comedy however can also be behind the digicam because the director as properly. As we are able to see from the trailer, Poehler can be shining a lightweight on a gaggle of younger ladies on a journey of empowerment.

The trailer opens with a dialog between Amy Poehler and her on-screen daughter Valerie, performed by Hadley Robinson. She desires to know what her mother cared about when she was younger, and Poehler proceeds to clarify that she was centered on toppling the patriarchy. Valerie, inspired, and bored with harassment and different occasions occurring at her faculty, groups with some classmates to launch a zine. It begins a grassroots motion on the faculty, ruffling feathers and shaking up the distressing norms that had beforehand been allowed to run rampant. The trailer doesn't shrink back from the truth that this film can be tackling some prevalent social points head-on.

Amy Poehler directed the film, which is predicated on the novel by Jennifer Mathie. The solid contains Lauren Tsai, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Nico Hiraga, Sydney Park, Josephine Langford, Clark Gregg, Josie Totah, Anjelika Washington, Charlie Corridor, Sabrina Haskett, Ike Barinholtz and Marcia Homosexual Harden. Poehler is thought greatest for her on-screen roles, significantly Leslie Knope from Parks and Recreation. However Poehler has been making a push as a director as of late. She beforehand helmed Wine Nation, additionally for Netflix, which was launched in 2019.

Moxie facilities on Vivian (Hadley Robinson), a seemingly shy 16-year-old, has all the time most popular to maintain her head down and fly beneath the radar. However when the arrival of a brand new pupil (Alycia Pascual-Peña) forces her to look at the unchecked conduct of her fellow college students working rampant at her highschool, Vivian realizes she's fed up. Impressed by her mom's (Amy Poehler) rebellious previous, Vivian anonymously publishes an underground zine referred to as Moxie to reveal bias and wrongdoing in her highschool, and unexpectedly sparks a motion. Now on the heart of a revolution, Vivian begins to forge new friendships with different younger ladies and allies, reaching throughout the divide of cliques and golf equipment as they study to navigate the highs and lows of highschool collectively.

There may be hope that film theaters will return later within the yr. However for the primary half of 2021 no less than, it's 2020 deja vu. Netflix is capitalizing and filling the void by releasing greater than 70 authentic films this yr. Different entries on the slate embody Amy Adams' long-delayed The Lady within the Window, Zack Snyder's Military of the Useless, Adam McKay's stacked Do not Look Up, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's Pink Discover and R.L. Stine's Worry Avenue trilogy, amongst many others. Moxie arrives on March 3 on the Netflix streaming service. Be sure you take a look at the brand new trailer for your self.

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