A student who has spent years avoiding attention at Rockport High finally decides that staying quiet costs more than speaking up. Moxie follows what happens once that decision turns into action.
What is Moxie about?
Vivian Carter has kept a low profile since starting high school, letting a small circle of friends and unremarkable routines carry her through the year. A new classmate who refuses to accept the school's casual sexism, paired with old records and flyers from her mother's younger years, pushes Vivian toward a project she never planned: a homemade, unsigned publication naming the double standards other students have simply learned to live with. The pages spread further than she intended, drawing support from classmates who recognize themselves in it and putting pressure on friendships Vivian assumed were stable. The result balances comedy against real stakes, tracking a shy teenager's uneven path toward saying things out loud.
About the cast
Hadley Robinson plays Vivian, with Lauren Tsai, Alycia Pascual-Peña, Nico Hiraga, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Josie Totah, Sydney Park and Josephine Langford rounding out the Rockport High cast. Amy Poehler directs the film and also takes a role on screen, carrying over the comic instincts she is best known for into a story that stays mostly earnest rather than broad.
Context & significance
Moxie reached audiences in 2021, part of a run of youth-focused features about student activism made for streaming rather than cinemas. Basing the script on a young-adult novel let Poehler keep the story contained to a single school and friend group instead of widening into a larger ensemble piece. Music carries real weight in the plot, since the soundtrack draws on the same punk and riot grrrl lineage the characters reference directly, which is part of why the catalogue lists music alongside comedy and drama as a genre.
Watching Moxie on Ktime
Moxie is available on K-Time with a free account login, and no extra purchase is required to watch it. Both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles are provided, and the K-Time interface itself runs in Farsi, so viewers in the Iranian diaspora can browse, search and watch without switching languages at any point.