The Lifeguard (2013)

The Lifeguard: Directed by Liz W. Garcia. With Kristen Bell, Mamie Gummer, Martin Starr, Alex Shaffer. A former valedictorian quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She gets work as a lifeguard and starts a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager.

“u0026quot;Things happen, keep moving or die.u0026quot; Leigh (Bell) is a reporter working for a paper in New York. After writing an article she is passionate about she quits when it wonu0026#39;t get published and ends up moving back home. While she is trying to make sense of her life she gets a job as a lifeguard and reconnects with her parents and her old friends. Leigh learns the meaning of u0026#39;you canu0026#39;t go home againu0026#39;. There is a saying you canu0026#39;t judge a book by its cover, after watching this one it should also be applied to movies. Going off the cover I expected a nice light comedy with Kristin Bell playing her usual character. I got the exact opposite. The movie is a heavy drama with very real issues. After moving home she finds that her friends are not who they once were and neither are her parents. She begins a romance with an underage boy at the place where she works which has repercussions for everyone. This is nothing like I expected but I did really like it much more then I expected. Overall, a different movie and role for Bell but it works. Depressing but good. I say B+.”