The Lifeguard
“This Summer Growing Up is Optional”
DramaComedyRomance
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.
VIBE
A hazy, sun-drenched dive into arrested development. It feels like a humid summer afternoon spent contemplating past choices and uncertain futures, with a lingering sense of wistful regret and quiet desperation.
melancholicnostalgicconflictedintrospectiveslow-burnindie dramacharacter-drivennaturalisticcoming-of-ageidentityescapismforbidden love
new york citysuicidehomeswimming poolmarijuanareporterrelationshipchildhoodlifeguardvaledictorianwoman director
