Dumped on her grandparents for the summer by her indifferent mother, acerbic and self-destructive teenager Greta disrupts the elderly couple's staid life on the Jersey Shore. Eventually, a romance helps Greta face down her demons.
Acting
Ellen Burstyn's side-eye could kill a man. Hilary Duff actually commits.
Writing
The diner scene where Greta reads her suicide note as dark comedy? Ouch.
Direction
Nancy Bardawil lets the Jersey Shore look genuinely melancholic.
Director
Nancy Bardawil
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