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Title: Tiger Eyes Freestyle Releasing Director: Lawrence Blume Screenwriter: Judy Blume, Lawrence Blume from Judy Blume’s novel Cast: Willa Holland, Army Jo Johnson, Tatanka means, Elise Eberle, Cynthia Stevenson, Lucien Dale, Forrest Fyre, Russell Means Screened at: Dolby88, NYC, 5/20/13 Opens: June 7, 2013 When I was in junior high school, our English teachers would hand out lists of recommended summer reading, warning that some of these books would appear after vacation for our pleasure. The lists were divided in half: one half for boys and the other for girls. Maybe “Little Women” for the fair sex and “Johnny Tremain” for the guys. The assumption was that the twain of [ Read More ]

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Being something of a novice when it comes to the topic of Judy Blume‘s body of work — 25 books for children and young adults, almost all of which deal with heady, still-controversial subject matter — I more or less assumed that one thing with her name on it had gone to the big screen by this point. Much to my surprise, then, did I read over at EW that this year’s Tiger Eyes will be the first instance of any of her works getting the big screen translation. (And here I was, ready to add stories of teen menstruation to my Netflix Queue.)

More important than this little factoid, though, is the first image from Tiger Eyes, which can be seen on your right. Co-written with her son, Lawrence, who is also directing, the story follows Davey (Willa Holland), a teenage girl who moves to New Mexico with her mother...