Nerve: Film Review Cast: Emma Roberts, Dave Franco, Juliette Lewis, Emily Meade Director: Ariel Schuman and Henry Joost If anything, directors Ariel Schuman and Henry Joost have already plied us with the perils of the internet with the 2010 film Catfish , so it's perhaps no surprise they jump back into the online world with Nerve, based on the novel by Jeanne Ryan. Emma Roberts is Vee, a shy wallflower of a girl who doesn't want to go to college and who harbours a crush on the high school football jock, who's never noticed her. Living in the shadow of both her boisterous BFF Sydney (Meade) and in the death of her brother, she decides after rejection to join a secretive online game of dare called Nerve. Controlled by watchers who set dares for money, Vee is sucked into the game, initially propelled by the adrenaline of rebellion and also because of her hunky co-gamer Ian (Dave Franco). But as the games escalate and become more life threatening (shifting from kissing a rando...
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