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According to Greta
2009 · Drama · Romance
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This Summer Growing Up is Optional
Leigh, feeling unfulfilled, quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She takes a job as a lifeguard, regresses into adolescent behavior, and begins a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager, leading to consequences for everyone involved.
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Wuchak
November 11, 2019
***A successful-yet- disheartened adult goes back home to refresh, but momentarily forgets she’s 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 isn’…
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