confused and unapologetically horny brain of a girl named Minnie Goetze. “Diary” is a vivid and often shocking story of growing up female in 1976 San Francisco, told with tenderness and humor ...

Bel Powley as Minnie Goetze in "The Diary of a Teenage Girl." Bel Powley as Minnie Goetze ... takes viewers along as she reports her observations of growing up in 1970s San Francisco.

“It was not, to say the least, a typical situation or easy to make sense of,” says Gloeckner of growing up here ... @sfchronicle.com The Diary of a Teenage Girl (R) opens Friday, Aug. 14 ...

The escapades grow darker, too ... Female sexuality has typically been so constrained by the movies that “Diary of a Teenage Girl” feels almost radical in its portrait of empowering promiscuity.

Boys grow up knowing that all of those crazy sexual thoughts are normal. With women, it’s a taboo subject.” The Diary of a Teenage Girl (R, 102 minutes). At area theaters.

Minnie is a 15-year-old girl, smart and curious, eager to express herself through drawing and by recording her thoughts into a tape recorder. Here's the first thing she says: "I had sex today!

confused and unapologetically horny brain of a girl named Minnie Goetze. “Diary” is a vivid and often shocking story of growing up female in 1976 San Francisco, told with tenderness and humor ...

‘Diary of a Teenage Girl’ 3 1/2 out of 4 stars Stars ... One is frightened by her experienced prowess in bed. The escapades grow darker, too, in the chapter she introduces as “The Making ...