Violet and Stella spend idyllic summers at camp and the beach. As time passes, personalities and bodies evolve in this thoughtful and elegiac indie drama about the everlasting bond of female friendship. Following the girls’ formative years from ages 9 through 13, we observe intimate details of their lives together and apart on vacations in New England and at home in California. At times, they struggle with body image, peer pressure, social awkwardness, and parental bonds. Yet at the end of the day, the girls have each other to lean on.
The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
An interesting featurette which has some good behind the scenes footage, including early location scouting, table reads and interactions with the often near out of control kids.
When thirteen-year-old Ronnie gets her first period on September 11th, she struggles with her newfound womanhood as the world crumbles around her.
Precocious 15-year-old Emerson is woken by her hysterical mother because her best friend Layla is unconscious and there’s an incriminating video found on Emerson’s iPhone from the night before.
A girl visits her father as he prepares for space travel.
Fired for being trans, a devoted grade school teacher decides the only solution is suicide, but an unexpected visit complicates her plan.