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Exclusive CS Video: Freddie Highmore & Emma Roberts
We’ve seen many coming-of-age movies taking place both in high school and in New York City, but none of them are quite like Gavin Wiesen’s The Art of Getting By , which combines the two in a unique way.
It stars Freddie Highmore now all grown-up and playing 18-year-old George, a chronic slacker art student at risk of not graduating high school since he hasn’t turned in enough of his assignments. He meets Sally, played by indie teen dream girl Emma Roberts, a pretty and well-to-do classmate higher up on the social food chain at the school, but she finds him intriguing, and the two of them start spending time together, even as George’s homelife starts falling apart when he learns his stepfather has been unemployed for months.
As much as The Art of Getting By is driven by the…