Summer '03 (2018)

Summer ’03: Directed by Becca Gleason. With Joey King, Paul Scheer, Andrea Savage, Jack Kilmer. A 16-year-old girl and her extended family are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of secrets on her deathbed.

“Itu0026#39;s the summer of 2003. Jamie Winkle (Joey King) and her family are sent into chaos when her dying grandmother Dotty (June Squibb) unveils a series of revelations. Baby Jamie had been baptized by Dotty without telling her Jewish mother Shira (Andrea Savage). Jamie is taken with Luke who is training to be a priest. March has an unrequited crush on her. Her best friend Emily is a fast girl from L.A.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis is a relatively standard coming of age dysfunctional family comedies about a hormone filled teen. This one is about a girl which comes with its own issues. I struggle with Jamieu0026#39;s likeability. Sheu0026#39;s struggling to know right from wrong and sex and all the big questions. Joey King is a hot girl looking for sex. Itu0026#39;s never quite as funny as a geeky guy desperately trying to lose his virginity. Guys look stupid and the audience laugh at them. Itu0026#39;s tougher to make girls struggle to have sex. The best that can be achieved is the girls having bad sex and Jamie isnu0026#39;t even doing that. There are still laughs to be had in this movie but whoever this Becca Gleason is, she has to figure out how to get more humor out of her comedies.”