From KCRW, Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. I'm sitting across from newly frozen New Yorker

from California. Geio Copley,

her first feature film is an adaptation of the James Franco short story cycle, Palo Alto.

First of all, thanks so much for being here.

Thank you.

And one of the things I really like about the movie is there's a section early in the book

where one of the characters is saying, you know,

I have friends who lived in New York in Los Angeles,

and they have these lives of excitement and danger.

I envy them.

And that sense of kind of envy weirdly runs throughout those stories.

And you sort of touch on that in the movie, too, don't you?

That kind of sense that you're always missing something.

Yeah, they're just sort of in a suburban bubble and and the moments that you kind of have there's nothing really else to do there except get into trouble yeah yeah yeah i mean it's in some

weird ways it kind of reminds me a little bit of the outsiders or or I mean it has that the feel

of S.E. Hinton to me. Cool. Yeah, I love that. I mean, that was definitely one of the references.

And I think that's why I love James' book so much because it was just like talking about teenagers

and showing them in a way that I hadn't seen in a really long time,

which I was excited to kind of get into that again.

That's interesting, too, because the book is in effect a kind of a series of diary entries,

really sort of immediate sort of journal scribblings as things are happening.

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