The Teenage Textbook Movie

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The Teenage Textbook Movie
Directed by Phillip Lim
Written by Philip Lim
Haresh Sharma
Edmund Tan
Produced by Jonathan Foo
Starring Melody Chen
Caleb Goh
Steven David Lim
Lim Hwee Sze
Chong Chee Kin
Edited by Walter Tan
Distributed by Cathay
Release date
November 1998
Running time
100 minutes
CountrySingapore
LanguageEnglish

The Teenage Textbook Movie is a film adaptation of Adrian Tan's bestselling 1988 novel The Teenage Textbook . It is a lighthearted look at the lives of four students in Singapore as they start junior college. [1]

Contents

Premise

When Mui Ee attends Paya Lebar Junior College with her best friend Sissy Song, she encounters a new life form: boys. There are many, but only one will win her heart.

Cast

Reception

Yong Siew Fern of The New Paper rated the film 3 stars out of 5 and wrote that "Unobtrusive acting and music-video editing combine to make this movie very much like your teen years - it will pass at its strolling pace, but it will be entertaining." [3] Tan of Sinema felt that the "script was very well-written and although some parts were a little off in execution, it was an amazing adaptation of the book.". [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "The Teenage Textbook updated for Gen Z in new TV series". sg.news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  2. "The Teenage Textbook Movie". Sinema.SG. 31 July 2008. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  3. Yong, Siew Fern (13 November 1998). "Teenage Textbook ... It's a tease". The New Paper . Singapore.
  4. Tan, D (28 December 2006). "Film Review: 'The Teenage Textbook'" . Retrieved 3 October 2023.