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The Teenage Textbook Movie

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The Teenage Textbook Movie
Directed byPhillip Lim
Written byPhilip Lim
Haresh Sharma
Edmund Tan
Produced byJonathan Foo
StarringMelody Chen
Caleb Goh
Lim Hwee Sze
Chong Chee Kin
Edited byWalter Tan
Distributed byCathay
Release dates
November, 1998
Running time
100 minutes
CountrySingapore
LanguageEnglish
Budget$230,000 (estimated)

The Teenage Textbook Movie is a film adaptation of Adrian Tan's bestselling 1988 novel The Teenage Textbook. It is a lighthearted look at the lives of four students in Singapore as they start junior college.

Its soundtrack was all-Singaporean, a first for English-language Singapore films.

Premise

When Mui Ee (Melody Chen) attends fictitious Paya Lebar Junior College with her best friend Sissy Song (Lim Hwee Sze), she encounters a new life form: boys. There are many, but only one will win her heart.