The first trailer for the movie adaptation of Stephen Chbosky's popular 1999 young adult novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower premiered during the MTV Movie Awards last night, and it's not exactly a ...

The template for films about high-school adolescence hasn't changed much John Hughes set the gold standard for coming-of-age films about teenagers. In fact, it has been a good long time since there's ...

Emma Watson sheds her Hermione persona for a little more mature and risqué role in the new, coming-of-age film The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and she says of her character, "She's truly original and ...

“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” has been my favorite book since I was about 13 when my sister finally allowed me to read it. At that point, it had been a decent amount of time since I had much ...

“I directed one microbudget indie feature,” Stephen Chbosky says of his previous experience as a filmmaker. “Half of it is really good.” OK, so maybe Chbosky didn’t quite have the résumé to take the ...

2012, Rated PG-13, 103 min. Directed by Stephen Chbosky. Starring Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Nina Dobrev, Mae Whitman, Johnny Simmons, Melanie Lynskey and Paul Rudd.

Discover the impact of Stephen Chbosky's 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' on a high school student, and the controversy surrounding its banning.