Movies

August, 1998

Growing up in suburban New Jersey is the subject of Whatever (Sony Classics), director Susan Skoog's perceptive first feature about a high school girl on the brink of adulthood. Liza Weil is perfect as Anna, who is rejected in her hopes to study art at New York's Cooper Union after graduation. She suffocates in Jersey with her lonely single mom and a sexually adventurous friend named Brenda (Chad Morgan). Urged by Brenda to live it up, she bicycles over to a local artist's pad for her sexual ini...