2013 · drama · comedy · romance
The Lifeguard
Directed by Liz W. Garcia1h 38m2013
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.
Our read: The Lifeguard (2013) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
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