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Barely Lethal (2015)

Barely Lethal poster
Directed by
Kyle Newman
Genre
action comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 1,117 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A teenage secret agent fakes her own death to attend a regular high school and live like a normal kid. She tries to fit in while dealing with school crushes and bullies, and her old spy agency comes looking for her.

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What happens

Barely Lethal is a 2015 American action comedy film directed by Kyle Newman, written by John D'Arco, starring Hailee Steinfeld, Thomas Mann, Sophie Turner, Dove Cameron, Jessica Alba, and Samuel L. Jackson. Steinfeld stars as Agent 83/Megan, a teenage intelligence agent yearning for a normal adolescence who disappears and enrolls as an exchange student in a suburban American high school. Barely Lethal received a digital release through DirecTV Cinema on April 30, 2015, and a limited release in theaters by A24 and through video-on-demand on May 29, 2015. The film received mostly negative reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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