Woodley finally makes misstep

Shailene Woodley, a young actress so engagingly real on camera that she can do no wrong, gets a lot wrong and a bad film out of her system with “White Bird in a Blizzard,” an overwrought coming-of-age mystery drama that is an embarrassment for most everyone involved.

As Kat, the heroine of Laura Kasischke’s heavy-breathing young adult novel, Woodley strips and seduces an older man (Thomas Jane), keeps a beau her own age (Shiloh Fernandez) around for the sex, and narrates her life with a blasé lack of interest that undercuts the mystery on which the story is built.

Mom is unstable on a good day. She brazenly flirts with Kat’s next-door-neighbor teen sex buddy Phil (Fernandez) and shows nothing but contempt for Kat’s wimpy pushover of a father (Christopher Meloni). Their marriage is “a long drink of water from a frozen fountain.” Green’s every testy, furious, can’t-hide-my-accent scene is laugh-out-loud awful.

Then there’s the cop Kat and her Dad go to see about tracking down Mom. Thomas Jane (“The Punisher”) as Detective Scieziesciez is an unkempt 40-something who looks like 50 miles of rough road, which apparently catches Kat’s eye. Must. Have. Him.

Kat confesses all to her obligatory gay BFF (Mark Indelicato) and overweight African American BFF (Gabourey Sidibe).

Seriously, is the Kasischke novel this bad? Or is that just Araki’s obsession with the lurid and the sexual?

Because we start to wonder what DID happen to that mom, tipped by Kat’s white-on-white inside-a-snow-globe nightmares. Not that the film frets over this as it jumps back and forth through time.

Whatever its intent, “White Bird in a Blizzard” misuses most everybody involved, especially the dazzling young star of “The Descendants,” “The Fault in Our Stars” and “Divergent.” The laughs, intentional and otherwise, don’t disguise the feeling that we’re watching the big screen equivalent of a young star’s nude selfie stolen from her cellphone.