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The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a 2012 American coming-of-age drama film writt, directed and based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Steph Chbosky. Logan Lerman stars as a teager named Charlie who writes to an unnamed frid, and these epistles chronicle his trials, tribulations, and triumphs as he goes through his freshman year of high school. The film depicts his struggles with his, unbeknownst to him, post-traumatic stress disorder, as he goes through his journey in high school making new frids, portrayed by Emma Watson and Ezra Miller. The film's semble cast also includes Mae Whitman, Kate Walsh, Dylan McDermott, Joan Cusack, Nina Dobrev and Paul Rudd in supporting roles.

Chbosky had always intded to adapt the novel to film, but did not rush to do so. He was hesitant to sell the rights to the film to anyone, but evtually sold them to Mr. Mudd Productions as long as they let him write and direct the film. Filming began in Pittsburgh, Pnsylvania, in May 2011 and lasted approximately fifty days.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower had its world premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2012, to a standing ovation. It was released theatrically in the United States on September 21, 2012, by Summit tertainmt. The film was well received by critics, who praised Chbosky's screplay and direction, the performances of Lerman, Watson and Miller, soundtrack, execution of its topics, and emotional weight. It was also a box office success, grossing $33.3 million on a budget of $13 million, and received several accolades, including the Indepdt Spirit Award for Best First Feature, two Critics' Choice Movie Awards nominations, and the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film – Wide Release. The film has since become a cult classic,

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In 1991, Charlie, who has suffered from clinical depression since childhood, has be discharged from a mtal health care institution. Uneasy about beginning his freshman year of high school, he is shy and has difficulty making frids. Charlie does connect with his glish teacher, Mr. Anderson.

Charlie meets two siors, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, at a football game. After the homecoming dance, Sam and Patrick invite him to a party. He unknowingly eats a cannabis brownie, gets high and discloses to Sam that his best frid committed suicide the year before. He also walks in on Patrick and Brad, the high school quarterback, kissing. Patrick tells Charlie that Brad is closeted, so he agrees to keep it a secret.

Sam realizes that Charlie has no other frids, so she and Patrick bring Charlie into their group. On their way home, the three hear an unknown song on the radio. Sam instructs Patrick to drive through a tunnel, so she can stand up in the back of the pickup while the music blasts.

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Sam needs to improve her SAT scores to have a better chance of being accepted into Pn State University, so Charlie offers to tutor her, which improves her scores. At Christmas, she gives him a vintage typewriter to thank him. They discuss relationships, and Charlie reveals he has never be kissed. Sam reveals that her first kiss was at age 11 by her father's boss. He reveals that his Aunt Hel was also sexually assaulted as a child, but he says that she was able to turn her life around. Sam tells Charlie she wants his first kiss to be from someone who loves him, and she kisses him.

At a regular Rocky Horror Picture Show performance, Charlie is asked to fill in for Sam's boyfrid Craig, who is not there. Their frid Mary Elizabeth is impressed and asks him to the Sadie Hawkins dance, and they ter into an unsatisfactory relationship. At a party, wh Charlie is dared to kiss the prettiest girl in the room, he chooses Sam, upsetting both her and Mary Elizabeth. Patrick tells Charlie to stay away from the group for a while; the isolation causes him to sink back into depression. He experices flashbacks of his Aunt Hel, who died in a car accidt on his sevth birthday.

Brad shows up to school with bruises on his face after being caught by his father having sex with Patrick. Brad says he was jumped and beat up, and he distances himself from Patrick, calling him a faggot. In anger, Patrick punches him, causing him to retaliate. Brad's frids begin beating Patrick, prevting Sam from interving, but Charlie forcefully interves, th blacks out. Upon recovering, he finds he has bruised knuckles and Brad's frids are incapacitated. Sam and Patrick express their gratitude to Charlie, and the three become frids again.

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Patrick tries to cope with what happed with Brad, and at one point he kisses Charlie, but he immediately apologizes. Charlie's mtal state quickly worss after the blackout. Sam is accepted into Pn State, and she breaks up with Craig on prom night after learning he is cheating on her. The night before she departs, she brings Charlie to her room. They confide in each other and kiss, but wh Sam touches Charlie's thigh, he experices a momtary flashback of his Aunt Hel, which he passes off as nothing, and they continue kissing.

After Sam leaves for college in the morning, Charlie's emotional state deteriorates and his flashbacks wors. He calls his sister, blaming himself for Hel's death, and he admits he may have wanted it to happ. His sister realizes he is in distress and calls the police. Charlie passes out as they burst through the door and awaks in a hospital, where psychiatrist Dr. Burton brings out his repressed memories, revealing that his aunt sexually abused him as a child.

The night Charlie is released from the hospital, he is visited by Sam and Patrick. Sam tells him what college life is like and says she has idtified the tunnel song: Heroes by David Bowie. The three revisit the tunnel, where Charlie kisses Sam again, and he stands up in the back of the truck. He acknowledges that he feels alive and that, at that momt, we are infinite.

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The author tried to answer the question with the stce we accept the love we think we deserve. This quote referces the struggle of finding self love, compassing one's life and hope for the future, and not just romantic love.

In that book he wrote the stce, I guess that's just one of the perks of being a wallflower, which led him to realize that somewhere in that ... was the kid I was really trying to find.

Charlie was loosely based on Chbosky himself. Like the novel itself, Chbosky included much of his own memories from the time he lived in Pittsburgh into the film.

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Chbosky focused on people's struggles and what they are passionate about, attempting to pin down the very nature of each of the characters.

The characters of Sam and Patrick were an amalgamate and celebration of several people Chbosky has met; Sam was based on girls who confided in him, and Patrick was all the kids I knew who were gay and finding their way to their own idtity.

Chbosky recalled a meeting with his agt saying, My agt said we would average a call a week, whether it was from producers optioning it or a writer or director wanting to adapt. Ev a German film company, I don't know the name of the company, but they wanted to buy it and turn it into a German film, which I would love to have se, in an alternate universe kind of way. Yeah, there were many offers, but I couldn't let it go. I don't know how to sell something this personal. And especially what the book meant to the fans—I couldn't let it go to anyone else. I owed the fans a movie that was worthy of their love for the book.

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Wh he finally did sit down and started on pning the screplay, he found it more difficult than the book. The novel took him just four months to write, while the script took him a year.

Chbosky would not sell the rights to the film unless the studio also let him adapt and direct the film. John Malkovich's production company—Mr. Mudd Productions—purchased the rights to the film and let Chbosky himself write the script and direct the film. In January 2011, Summit acquired distribution rights.

The following month, Summit sought a buyer for the project at the European Film Market held simultaneously with the Berlin International Film Festival.

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In April 2011, Mae Whitman signed on as Mary Elizabeth and Nina Dobrev was cast as Candace. Paul Rudd was cast as Mr. Anderson later that month.

The film also has sces within Pittsburgh city limits inside the Fort Pitt Tunnel, Fort Pitt Bridge on Interstate 376 and on Mount Washington.

The soundtrack to The Perks of Being a Wallflower was released by Atlantic Records on September 11, 2012, a month before the film's release.

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The film's music was chos by the film's director Steph Chbosky and music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas, while the incidtal music was scored by Michael Brook.

Chbosky wrote on