An ingenue babysitter trying to seduce the child’s father while mom’s away is a ripe-for-Hollywood scene — or cliche. In the hands of director Lena Dunham (who also plays the mom), it gets turned into ...

Sharp Stick is a 2022 American comedy film that explores themes of sexuality, loss, and power in a nontraditional way. It follows a naive 26-year-old named Sarah Jo, yearning for connection, who gets ...

Early in Lena Dunham’s bittersweet Sharp Stick, which goes wide this week, two young women are treated, yet again, to their origin stories. Their mother, Marilyn (Jennifer Jason Leigh), believes in ...

Kristine Froseth plays a Lolita-like babysitter — and virgin, touched for the very first time — in this coming-of-age tale. Over a decade ago, when Lena Dunham was in her early 20s, she wrote and ...

Lena Dunham has always been one to inspire strong reactions with her work, and just because she’s not at the center of her film Sharp Stick (now streaming on Hulu) doesn’t mean it inspires any less ...