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Tweens invade the raunchy teen comedy in 'Good Boys'

By JAKE COYLE between childhood and
Associated Press adolescence like few films
The 12-year-old protago- have before. To be fair, few
nists of "Good Boys" have have even tried quite like
mastered the use of lingo this. "Good Boys" is rated
like "lit" and "burn," but they R which means, as its mar-
are foggier on just exact- keting has playfully high-
ly what a tampon is and lighted, that its young stars
swear that a nymphomani- — Jacob Tremblay, Keith
ac is someone who has sex L. Williams, Brady Noon —
on land and on sea. They aren't old enough to see
are tantalizingly close to their own movie alone,
young adulthood and yet even though they're the
tragically far away. ones launching F-bombs
"Good Boys" mines that gulf and unwittingly goofing

This image released by Universal Pictures shows Brady Noon, from left, as Thor, Keith L. Williams as
Lucas, and Jacob Tremblay, as Max, in the film, "Good Boys," written by Lee Eisenberg and Gene
Stupnitsky and directed by Stupnitsky.
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around with sex toys. separation of college but (Seth Rogen and Evan
That contradiction is at the onset of middle school Goldberg, who wrote "Su-
the heart of "Good Boys," cliques. perbad" are producers.) It's
a teen comedy about And there are slightly dif- the movie version of a kid
tweens. All of the genre's ferent hurdles that stymie wearing clothes many sizes
hallmarks are there, but their adventures along the too big. And while it doesn't
they've been shifted down way. Whenever the boys touch the comic heights of
a grade or two. The party encounter the child lock "Superbad," ''Good Boys" is
the kids are trying franti- on a medicine bottle, for a raunchy good time and
cally to get to isn't a kegger instance, they're at a com- probably one of the most
but a "kissing party." plete loss. faithful cinematic represen-
Bonds of friendship are "Good Boys" is a kind of tations of pre-pubescent
tested not by the looming mini-me to "Superbad." boyhood.q
Samira Wiley says she'll never

forget her character Poussey

Wiley has some advice for was in love with theater."
us all: "Find something that After high school, she ap-
you love to do and get plied to conservatories but
somebody to pay you for came up empty-handed,
it." landing at Temple Univer-
Before that happened to sity and eventually Juilliard.
the "Orange is the New "Acting, it's almost like this
Black" co-star, before she addiction," said Wiley, who
was even accepted to played Poussey Washing-
The Juilliard School, there ton on the Netflix series that
was little more than her released its seventh and
"tortured love" of the craft. final season in July. "I can't
That was no deterrence, imagine my life without it."
though. The show's creative team
"There's this intense, in- has established a fund
tense love on my part but, that will support advocacy
This June 28, 2019, photo like, I don't know if it loves groups pressing for criminal
shows Samira Wiley posing for me back, kind of thing," justice reform and women
a portrait in New York to pro-
mote the seventh season of said Wiley, who spent her re-entering society from
"Orange is the New Black." childhood participating in prison, along with those
Associated Press various arts programs. "I just working to protect immi-
never got any encourage- grants' rights and end mass
By LEANNE ITALIE ment or any, really, indica- incarceration. The fund is
Associated Press tion at all that I was possibly named in honor of Wiley's
NEW YORK (AP) — Samira talented. I just knew that I character.q