the vibe
Bert V. Royal’s Typical Vibe
2 films — brisk, hopeful, gentle, clear, playful
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Bert V. Royal has 2 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s.
Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher and the distracted guidance counselor. With the support of her hilariously idiosyncratic parents and a little help from a long-time crush, Olive attempts to take on her notorious new identity and crush the rumor mill once and for all.
Dir. Will Gluck · With Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes
Taking place over three summers - 1993, 1994, 1995 - in a small Texas town, a beautiful popular teen, Kate, is abducted and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette, goes from being a sweet, awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town and, by ’95, the most despised person in America.
Dir. Bert V. Royal · With Sadie Stanley, Lexi Underwood, Griffin Gluck
