Festival in June 1998 and the Sundance Film Festival in January 1999, before getting a limited release in June 1999. Reception Edge of Seventeen currently holds a 79% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 24 reviews with an average rating of 6.6/10. Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote, "The insecurities and turbulent desires of adolescence have rarely been portrayed more faithfully on screen than in Edge of Seventeen the latest and most poignant in a recent spate of teen-age male coming-out-of-the-closet dramas." Accolades 1998 Outfest Won Audience Award Outstanding Narrative Feature (David Moreton) Grand Jury Award Outstanding American Narrative Feature (David Moreton) Outstanding Screenwriting (Todd Stephens) 1998 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Won Audience Award Best Feature (David Moreton) Soundtrack Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack "Right by Your Side" – Eurythmics "Smalltown Boy" – Bronski Beat "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" – A Flock of Seagulls "Obsession" – Animotion "The Politics of Dancing" – Re-Flex "Love Plus One" – Haircut One Hundred "Destination Unknown" – Missing Persons "So Many Men, So Little Time" – Miquel Brown "High Energy" – Evelyn Thomas "Mickey" – Toni Basil "Why?" – Bronski Beat "Modern Love Is Automatic" – A Flock of Seagulls "In the Name of Love" – Thompson Twins "You're My World" – Cilla Black "Blue Skies" – Lea DeLaria In popular culture Andersen Gabrych, who portrays Rod, appears as a drugged-out version of the character in Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!, another film by Edge writer Todd Stephens. Stephanie McVay, who portrays Bonnie Hunter, appears as the same character in Another Gay Movie, as the mother of Nicco Hunter, another gay son. Repeating the scene from this film when Eric comes out to his mother (even wearing a similar costume and hairstyle playing the piano), Nicco announces he likes men. McVay looks at him incredulously and then says, "Well duh!". See also "Edge of Seventeen", the song by Stevie Nicks on which the film's title is based. References External links 1998 films 1998 comedy-drama films 1998 independent films 1998 LGBT-related films 1990s romantic comedy-drama films American independent films American teen LGBT-related films American romantic comedy-drama films Bisexuality-related films Films set in the 1980s Films set in 1984 Films set in 1985 Films set in Ohio Films shot in Ohio Gay-related films Lesbian-related films LGBT-related coming-of-age films 1990s English-language films 1990s American