So two high school girls, just about to graduate, suddenly realize that they’ve devoted their whole high school years to academics and missed out on everything else, and decide to go to a party and have fun, is the premise of the movie.

And like: that premise sounds stupid, because it sounds like the premise of the shitty teen comedies that were made when we were young, but it turns out that teen comedies today are like a zillion times better than they used to be, or at least this one is. It hits some of the broad notes you’d expect, but it also goes unexpected places, and it’s a lot richer and more subtle and true. (And it’s hard not to think that being written and directed by women — it’s Olivia Wilde’s directing debut — has something to do with that.)

It’s smart, it’s funny, it’s awkward, it’s sweet. The movie apparently didn’t do well in theatres despite rave reviews, and I don’t even know, because it’s doing the kind of stuff popular comedies do, just better, so it feels like it could have had a really big audience. At any rate, it’s on Amazon Prime now, and absolutely worth watching.