The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) is a coming-of-age drama film based on Stephen Chbosky's 1999 novel of the same name. The story follows 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman), an introverted freshman who is taken under the
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a 1999 young adult novel by American author Stephen Chbosky. Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows Charlie, an introverted and observant teenager, through his freshman year of high school in a Pittsburgh suburb. The novel details Charlie's unconventional style of thinking as he navigates between the worlds of adolescence and adulthood, and attempts to deal with poignant questions spurred by his interactions with both his friends and family.