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The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a 2012 American coming-of-age romantic 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 only manages to make frids with his glish teacher.

Charlie meets two siors, Patrick and his stepsister Sam. After the homecoming dance, Sam and Patrick invite him to a party with their frid group. He unknowingly eats a cannabis brownie, gets high and makes speeches to the amusemt of the party-goers. 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. Charlie discloses to Sam that his best frid committed suicide the year before, making her realize 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.

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. This improves her scores, and at Christmas, she gives him a vintage typewriter. 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. Charlie reveals that his Aunt Hel was also sexually assaulted as a child. Sam tells Charlie she wants his first kiss to be from someone who loves him, and they kiss.

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At a party, Charlie trips on LSD. He cannot control his flashbacks of Aunt Hel, who died in a car crash on her way to buy him his 7th birthday gift. He ds up in the hospital after falling asleep in the snow. At a regular The Rocky Horror Picture Show performance, Sam asks Charlie to fill in for her boyfrid, Craig. Their frid Mary Elizabeth is impressed and asks him to the Sadie Hawkins dance, and they ter 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 and Charlie sinks back into depression.

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 beat Patrick and prevt Sam from interving wh Charlie does before blacking out. Upon recovering, he finds that he has incapacitated Brad's frids. Sam and Patrick thank Charlie, and the three become frids again.

Charlie's mtal state worss. Patrick tries to cope with what happed with Brad and kisses Charlie before immediately apologizing. 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 flashback of his Aunt Hel, which he passes off.

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After Sam leaves for college, Charlie's emotional state and flashbacks wors. He calls his sister, who 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, the three revisit the tunnel, having idtified the song, and kiss. Charlie stands up in the back of the truck. He acknowledges that he feels alive and that, at the momt, we are infinite.

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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.

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Chbosky would not sell the rights to the film unless a 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.

After discovering, from her agt, that no one in Hollywood wanted to fund the movie due to its subject matter, Emma Watson flew out to Los Angeles to pitch the film and met with multiple studio executives from all the major film studios such as Paramount, Warner Bros., Disney, etc. In January 2011 after Watson met with and pitched the film to Erik Feig, he gave the grelight, which led to Summit acquiring the 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