Moxie. Netflix
The new Netflix film
Moxie, directed by Amy Poehler from the book by Jennifer Mathieu, tries to stuff a lot of things into two hours. It s a story about Vivian (Hadley Robinson), a 16-year-old girl trying out the idea of a political self for the first time via a feminist zine (the titular
Moxie) that she secretly begins publishing and stacking up on top of the hand dryers in the school bathrooms. The zine leads to the formation of a Moxie club, and then to something of a movement.
It s also a story about Vivian as the child of a single mom (played by Poehler), and how she struggles with her mom s desire to date. And there s more! Vivian is getting involved with her first boyfriend, Seth (Nico Haraga), a guy who knows about and digs her secret work. She s having some growing pains with her longtime best friend Claudia (Lauren Tsai), in part because she s making a bunch of new Moxie friends including Lucy (Alycia Pascual-Peña), whose boldness in stan
For way too long, the stories of boys and men have been prioritized in Hollywood and beyond. In fact, it’s only been in the last few years, that films