The Lifeguard
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.
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"It's easy to see why not everyone loves this film. It's just not all that funny. Or exciting. Or inspiring. Worst of all, it doesn't leave you with any sense of accomplishment or insight. It works, however, if you can relate to this movie as an adult who has ever gone through a period of your life where you just wanted to go back to a simpler time. I was able to relate in particular because like Leigh in the movie I actually went back to being a lifeguard in my 20s after graduating from college and not really knowing what to do with myself. And like Leigh, things didn't r..."
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Kristen Bell felt she first had to run the script by her fiancé, actor Dax Shepard, before she undertook the role because of the steamy love scene. "I wanted so badly to be a part of it," she told Vanity Fair, "and I gave the script to my significant other and I said, 'Do you want to read through this? It is a really graphic love scene. Do you want to talk about it?' He said, 'You know what, I don't care. I trust you. As long as you don't come back pregnant, I don't care.' And I came back pregnant (they found out she was pregnant with her fiancee's baby), which we always joke about."
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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.