“To be a weirdo or a loser in high school doesn’t feel so bad when you’re surrounded by people who profoundly get you. As silly as the colloquial phrase “find someone who matches your freak” sounds, there’s immense truth to it. Especially when it comes to the high school years, when it’s so easy to feel like an outcast. If there’s one other person who gets you, that’s all you really need. In Megan Rico and Kade Atwood’s SXSW-premiering Edie Arnold Is a Loser, they’ve created a Catholic, punk rock love letter to the fellow weirdos who make life less lonely.
As the title quite heavily implies, Edie Arnold (Adi Madden Cabrera) isn’t what you would call a popular kid. She’s moody, goofy, and uninhibited in a way that goes against pretty much all that all-girls Catholic schools stand for. Her best friend is Frances (McKenna Tuckett), a fellow loner, but the two don’t ever seem like they want to be somewhere else. They love the odd little friendship they have and goof off at every chance they get. They’re accompanists for the choir, and it’s there that they hatch a plan to start a punk band. Edie on drums, Frances on vocals and keys. Nothing more punk rock than screamo versions of hymns, right?”
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SXSW ’26: Edie Arnold Is a Loser Is an Underdog Winner
