2017 · romance · drama · music
SPF-18
Directed by Alex Israel1h 15m2017
Eighteen-year-old Penny Cooper spent years pining for heartthrob surfer Johnny Sanders Jr. before his father’s tragic death brought them closer together. But now high school is over, and when mysterious country musician Ash Baker shows up on the beach, Penny is torn.
Our read: SPF-18 (2017) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded romance · drama · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle romance / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
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