Desperate to get out from under her overprotective mother, a home-schooled teen runs off to live with her dad, and forms a bond with his much-younger boyfriend.
I didn't read the description before watching this movie. It was raining, I was on Netflix, enough said.
The main character is played by Ashley Rickards, who plays Jenna in Awkward; a tv show I used to love to pieces. Maybe I'm growing as a person, but I don't seem to like anything anymore...it's frustrating. Anyway I recognized her so I watched this movie. In hindsight, that was not a good enough reason to watch this indie film but it's too late now!
So Betheny (Ashley Rickards) has a suckish home life. Blunt, but the truth. Her mom collects money from her dad--parents are divorced--and she doesn't let her kids out of her sight. After her ex-husband left her for another man she has been very self-conscious and needs to be in control.
Lots of mundane things happen but Betheny is determined to leave that house and she does. Circumstances change and she ends up back there again. Her dream is to go to fashion school and in the end she does.
Sorry to ruin the ending but this movie is pretty predictable: from the next-door boyfriend to the cliche first job nothing surprised me enough to watch this movie again or even sympathize with the characters. I didn't know if I was proud of Beth getting out of her mom's house just to come right back. Her life was one big disappointment after another so of course 80 of the 90 minutes of this movie would be somber, frustrating and mundane.
That being said, I was strangely entertained by this film. God knows why, but I could sort of relate to it I guess. When I graduated from high school I wanted nothing more than to leave my parents' house and get on with my life. So I went to college as far away from home as I could, but I still ended coming home more often than not.
I don't have much else to say about this movie. It left me with a blank expression and feeling MEH about my 90 minute experience.
So if you have to escape the boredom of a rainy day, then by all means watch this movie...but remember there's a reason it got 2 stars on Netflix.
My rating: 2 stars...I'm sorry to be redundant but all I can say is 'MEH'.
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