The Lifeguard
This Summer Growing Up is Optional
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8/30/2013Runtime
98 minsOverview
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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A woman escapes her ambitious life to return to the comfort of childhood, only to find herself adrift between adolescence and adulthood, drawn into a risky romance that forces her to confront what she's running from. It's a quietly unsettling portrait of arrested development and nostalgia's seductive pull.
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