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Title: A movie to watch with girlfriends NOT a boyfriend
Review: The casting for this movie was spot on - but the actress who played 13 y.o. Janey shined the brightest. Yes, it is another coming of age story but this one hits the mark. It's about growing up in the 70s. It's about a girl hating her mom and yet, trying desperately to be just like her. But most of all, it is about endurance - just holding on.The film is slow paced and fits the mood of the lazy days of a 1970s summer. Add lots of booze and marital boredom, mixed together with sexual awakening and you have a disaster just waiting to happen. Janey's flirting with the same man as her mother has dire consequences in so many ways.The whole "rain" metaphor and using it as a title struck me as too film project but since it was this director's first film, she deserves a lot of credit for making a film that strikes a hard emotional truth.
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