We found this on Netflix streaming movies. It has no box office data and appears to have been seen by relatively small audiences. The writer/director is a first-timer.
It is about a smart girl who is a recent college graduate at 20 and, encouraged by her rather pushy mom is studying for the LSAT exams. She will be a lawyer, a very good one ... or will she? Is that what she really wants?
The story explores her coming to grips with what she really wants to do. When her friends go off in the winter to frolic on beaches she volunteers to go to upstate NY to help her great aunt who recently broke her foot. Mainly to get away from mom's constant "How's the studying coming along?" But the encounters there, with her great aunt and others, helps her see the bigger picture of life.
The great aunt is Diane Ladd (nearing 80) as Vera who had been married to a successful author. The college graduate is Eden Brolin as Dora.
This is the first time I had seen young Eden, daughter of Josh, and during filming she probably was really 20 or 21. I came away very favorably impressed, she looks great on camera and has good, natural acting chops. The movie succeeds or fails on her performance and in my opinion succeeds very well.
It is about a smart girl who is a recent college graduate at 20 and, encouraged by her rather pushy mom is studying for the LSAT exams. She will be a lawyer, a very good one ... or will she? Is that what she really wants?
The story explores her coming to grips with what she really wants to do. When her friends go off in the winter to frolic on beaches she volunteers to go to upstate NY to help her great aunt who recently broke her foot. Mainly to get away from mom's constant "How's the studying coming along?" But the encounters there, with her great aunt and others, helps her see the bigger picture of life.
The great aunt is Diane Ladd (nearing 80) as Vera who had been married to a successful author. The college graduate is Eden Brolin as Dora.
This is the first time I had seen young Eden, daughter of Josh, and during filming she probably was really 20 or 21. I came away very favorably impressed, she looks great on camera and has good, natural acting chops. The movie succeeds or fails on her performance and in my opinion succeeds very well.