The Lifeguard

  • Drama
  • Comedy
  • Romance
8/30/2013
98
R

This Summer Growing Up is Optional

A former valedictorian quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She gets work as a lifeguard and starts a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager.

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  • Wuchak

    A successful-yet- disheartened adult goes back home to refresh, but momentarily forgets shes an adult

    An overachieving 29 year-old reporter in New York City (Kristen Bell) experiences burnout and so flees to her hometown in Connecticut where she gets her old lifeguard job back at the local pool. She reunites with old friends as well as establishes new relations with the teens that frequent the pool, which isnt a good mix if the adult throws wisdom to the wind.

    "The Lifeguard" (2013) is a realistic slice-of-life drama that meshes "Lifeguard" (1976) and Summer of 42 (1971) with elements of "Snow Angels" (2007). The opening turned me off with its hand-held-camera Indie vibe, but the story eventually pulled me in and the movie turn...

    November 11, 2019

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