Director Leander Haußmann has collaborated with author Jan Weiler in adapting his bestseller about grumpy, uncommunicative pubescents and their equally embarrasing parents for the big screen. Newcomer Harriet Herbig-Matten plays teenager Carla who transforms from daddy’s little princess into a petulant little madam shortly before her 14th birthday. Her journalist father Hannes (Jan Josef Liefers) decides to stay home to help Carla get through this difficult phase, but puts his foot in it at every move. And other fathers aren't any better: Hannes’ best friend Holger (Detlev Buck) prefers to be shot at in the Middle East rather than have to deal with his teenage terror back home...
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