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Eighth Grade (Original title)The Coolest Girl In The World (Working title)8th Grade (Help search title)
Dates: 2018 (Copyright), 13 July 2018 (Release)

Country: USA

Director: Bo Burnham

Synopsis: Kayla Day, an eighth grade student in an American middle school in New York State struggles to fit in with her contemporaries during her last week of classes before graduating to high school.

Genres:
Comedy, Drama

Subjects:
Teenagers, Social media
Releases
Date: 13 July 2018Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - Sound - Dolby DigitalAspect ratio: 1.85:1Runtime: 94 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: A24
Date: 29 April 2019Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - Sound - Dolby DigitalAspect ratio: 1.85:1Runtime: 93 mins 59 secs - Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Sony Pictures Releasing UK

Credits (49)
©: LLC A24 Distribution, an IAC Films and A24 production: IAC Films, A24, present: Sony Pictures Releasing International, Stage 6 Films, Filmed with the support of the: The New York State Governor's Office for Motion Picture & Television Development, Executive Producer: Jamin O’Brien, Produced by: Scott Rudin, Produced by: Eli Bush, Produced by: Lila Yacoub, Produced by: Christopher Storer, Associate Producer: Tom Ishizuka, Production Co-ordinator: Jessie Ng, Key Production Accountant: Jaymi Lynne Rosano, Location Manager: Elizabeth Krekel, Post-production Supervisor: Isabel Henderson, 1st Assistant Director: Dan Taggatz, 2nd Assistant Director: Vic Coram, Script Supervisor: Samantha Evoy, Casting: Allison Jones, Casting: Meredith Tucker, Written by: Bo Burnham, Director of Photography: Andrew Wehde, Underwater Camera Operator: Sean Gilbert, A Camera Operator: Gary Malouf, Additional Camera Operator: Bill Saxelby, Still Photographer: Linda Källérus, Visual Effects by: Entoptic, Special Effects Co-ordinator: Eddie Drohan, Editor: Jennifer Lilly, Production Designer: Sam Lisenco, Art Department Co-ordinator: Bernadette Pino, Set Decorator: Henriette Underwater, Graphic Designer: Will Hopper, Prop Master: Daniel Fisher, Costume Designer: Mitchell Travers, Costume Supervisor: Anna Tringali, Make-up Department Head: Heidi Pakdel, Hair Department Head: Diana Sikes, Title Design: Andrew Lim, Colourist: Jack Lewars, Music by: Anna Meredith, Music Supervisor: Joseph Rudge, [Production] Sound Mixer: Matt McLarty, Re-recording Mixer: Skip Lievsay, Re-recording Mixer: Larry Zipf, Supervising Sound Editor: Skip Lievsay, Digital Intermediate by: Technicolor PostWorks
Cast (26)
Elsie Fisher (Kayla Day), Josh Hamilton (Mark Day), Emily Robinson (Olivia), Jake Ryan (Gabe), Daniel Zolghadri (Riley), Fred Hechinger (Trevor), Imani Lewis (Aniyah), Luke Prael (Aiden Wilson), Catherine Oliviere (Kennedy Graves), Nora Mullins (Steph), Gerald W. Jones (Tyler), Missy Yager (Mrs Graves), Shacha Temirov (Mason), Greg Crowe (Mr McDaniel), Thomas John O'Reilly (Edmund), Frank Deal (Officer Todd), J. Tucker Smith (Mr Graves), Tiffany Grossfeld (Babs), David Shih (chaperone), Trinity Goscinsky-Lynch (Dylan), Natalie Carter (Mrs Rosh), Kevin R. Free (Mr Dankert), Keith Maurice Davis (high school boy), Deborah Unger (Mrs Nolan), William Alexander Wunsch (brave boy), Marguerite Stimpson (puberty video instruction)