The ensuing events challenge Vivian’s friendship with her bestie Claudia (Lauren Tsai), and earn her support from classmate and love interest Seth (Nico Hiraga), who knows she started the zine. The publication inspires the female students to rise up. Her targets include problematic people like obnoxious jock Mitchell (Patrick Schwarzenegger) and complacent principal Shelly (Marcia Gay Harden). Influenced by Riot Grrrl, the underground punk movement of her mother’s (Poehler) era, the protagonist anonymously starts a zine called Moxie, calling out the unfair treatment of girls at her school. The arrival of an opinionated new student, Lucy (Alycia Pascual-Peña), and the subsequent bullying and harassment she witnesses, inspire Vivian to take action. Fter making her directorial debut with 2019’s Wine Country, Amy Poehler returns to the director’s chair for Moxie, a rebel girl comedy drama that explores adolescence and feminism.īased on the young adult novel of the same name by Jennifer Mathieu, the movie tells the tale of a girl who, inspired by her feminist mother, starts a revolution at her school.Īs the film begins, we meet teenager Vivian (Hadley Robinson) who is meekly navigating her way through high school.
