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Six played-out teen contemporary tropes (most of which I've used)

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Naomi K
Dec 13, 2016
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I recently saw a teen film, The Duff, which is about this girl who realizes that in her girl posse she's kind of the ugly one. The movie was charming, as I expected, but what I did not expect was how many teen movie tropes it played completely straight (as in, without even blinking an eye about how used-up they were). Now I am probably the last person w…

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