SXSW Review: Their Town Is a Smart, Tender, and Somber Look at Teenhood

Thornton Wilder’s meta-play Our Town, a staple of high school productions and English-class readings, has been used countless times onscreen—from its own adaptations to a memorable episode of The Wonder Years—as an entry point for talking about life on an earth that, as protagonist Emily Webb famously says, is “too wonderful for anybody to realize […] The post SXSW Review: Their Town Is a Smart, Tender, and Somber Look at Teenhood first appeared on The Film Stage.