‘Mid-90s’ Trailer: Jonah Hill Makes His Directorial Debut With Coming-of-Age Film

Jonah Hill has had a remarkable career arc. When he started out as a mainstay in crude comedies and broke out with the wildly raunchy Superbad, no one really expected him to go on to become an Oscar nominee — let alone a two-time Oscar nominee. Now Hill is stepping behind the camera with his directorial debut, Mid-90s. Based on a script penned by Hill, Mid-90s is a coming-of-age film set in — you guessed it — the ’90s. See the first trailer below.

Mid-90s Trailer

Mid-90s is Hill’s ode to ’90s skater culture, following Stevie (The Killing of a Sacred Deer’s Sunny Suljic), a 13-year-old growing up in LA who falls in with a group of friends he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop. The movie takes place over the summer as Stevie navigates between his own troubled home life and the home lives of his new friends.

Mid-90s also stars Lady Bird‘s Lucas Hedges as Stevie’s older brother and Katherine Waterston as their mother.

The movie trailer feels very much like a love letter to the ’90s, with its grainy resolution and its Movietone aspect ratio. It’s less like an inspirational coming-of-age drama and more like a gritty, lived-in film befitting its A24 label. Suljic delivers a subtle performance after his breakout in The Killing of a Sacred Deer, while Hedges plays against type with a violent, hypermasculine turn as his older brother.

Waterston doesn’t appear in the trailer, but the Fantastic Beasts actress recently heaped praise on Hill’s directing skills, telling Metro, “He is a brilliant director. The cast was incredible. Sunny Suljic plays my son, and he is one of the most extraordinary little creatures I have ever met. He is incredibly talented, very young and an amazing skateboarder and just a cool kid.”

She summarized the plot as well, which remains fairly vague in official synopses, saying, “It is about a skateboarding kid, there’s also the family story that’s very intense and painful and complicated. I play the mum. But she’s not a typical mom. Lucas Hedges is my other son.”

Mid-90s opens in theaters on October 19, 2018.

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