‘Big Time Adolescence’ is Pete Davidson’s breakout — movie review

Big Time Adolescence follows the friendship between a stoner burnout and a high school student whose debaucherous

Quick review: Big Time Adolescence is a surprisingly sweet character study about growing up and not growing up.

Big Time Adolescence is the perfect vehicle for a comedy star like Pete Davidson to make the jump to film. It premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival to much buzz following his highly-publicized breakup with Ariana Grande. The film and his performance came as a surprise — Davidson could act. Now, more than a year later and a clearer space to evaluate it, that still stands. And it isn’t just the surprise that a Saturday Night Live player could handle something more than just a comedy sketch, Davidson delivers a lot of nuance within a character that we’ve come so much to associate with him. 

Davidson plays Zeke, who is an effortlessly cool and debaucherous high school student when we’re introduced to him. His then-girlfriend Kate (Emily Arlook) and her little …