It's also difficult to see what Meyers was trying to achieve other than a couple of brief moments, we're never given any real access to Dahmer's interiority, so he remains an enigma, always at arm's length (which could have been the point). Narratively, however, it's extremely plodding, and could easily have been trimmed by 20 minutes. The film is tonally brilliant, coming across like The Breakfast Club (1985) directed by David Fincher, perfectly capturing 80s tackiness. Taking place over the course of Jeffrey Dahmer's last year in high school, and culminating with the fateful meeting between Dahmer ( Ross Lynch) and Steven Hicks ( Dave Sorboro), writer/director Marc Meyers's My Friend Dahmer is based on the graphic novel by John Backderf (played in the film by Alex Wolff), who attended the same school as Dahmer, and formed a pseudo-friendship with him.
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