As You Are is a 2016 American drama film directed by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte and starring Owen Campbell, Charlie Heaton, and Amandla Stenberg.

Dramatic Competition section at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Award.

[1][2] Set in the 1990s, the film opens with a flashback of a battered Mark examining his wounds in the mirror before going off into the woods with his friend Jack, where a gunshot is heard.

The narrative is also framed within a police investigation involving interrogations of the main characters regarding the relationship between Jack and Mark.

Jack and Mark begin sharing a room and grow closer, using drugs and navigating adolescence and the tribulations of the 90s, including the suicide of their idol Kurt Cobain.

The two start to date after Sarah is stood up at prom, and together the two encounter Mark hanging out with a group of delinquents.

In the interrogation room, Jack begins to break down emotionally as the detective aggressively accosts him for lying about the skate park, and demands to know what happened in the woods.

[3] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 67 out of 100, based on nine critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".