Sorry, things have been a tad slow, it is the middle of summer and not much is going on other than working. These movies might be lame, but they can also teach us a bit about ourselves. This is almost a weird movie, it stars Keira Knightley coming to terms with her high school friends and her have different paths. The friends want to grow old together, practically wipe each other's asses, but she is starting to feel suffocated by the whole deal. Adding to that, her career plans have not taken off, even with getting a Master's degree and training as a family counselor/therapist, she does not have that connection with people.
The weirdness picks up at one of the besties weddings and the boyfriend is trying to propose, which makes her panic. She tells him no, it is her friend's night and they shouldn't be trying to steal the spotlight. In order to get away from the situation, she claims to need to go lay rose petals in the honeymoon suite, at the store, she meets a group of teens looking for someone to buy them some beer. She agrees and in order to avoid her uncomfortable situation, she stays with the kids drinking in the park or wherever they were. The next day the main teen that befriended her, Annika, calls her again to get her out of some school trouble. Keira pretends to be the mom and talks to the counselor. Now they have created a bond and Keira, who is a good 10-15 years older that Annika asks Annika if she can lay low in her house. She needs a break from her life, she saw her Dad getting a handy at the wedding and a friend couple wants them to be the godparents to their child. Not to mention her boyfriend has mentioned going to Las Vegas and getting married in a quickie wedding.
While staying at Annika's, she gets sucked into the family dynamic, the dad is a lawyer trying to figure it out, his wife has just left him, and the daughter is acting out a bit, hence the talk at school and the drinking late at night. The dad starts out as a hard ass, not trusting an older woman befriending a teen, but after a couple days figures she is harmless.
The whole thing leads to self discovery. She figures she can't move forward with life because she is too engaged with her old friends she should have chucked when she finished school. Those people are happy to be in each other's shit, but Keira is more of a free spirit, not trying to conquer the world. She is ok twirling a sign for her dad's company to make enough to get by, and her dad is only too happy to have his daughter around. In the end, she breaks up with the old boyfriend who is too involved with the "group", even them running off to Vegas to get eloped "requires" him to send a taking off pic to them so they can keep up with their whereabouts. It ends with her going back to Annika's house to fix things with her dad. The two of them have some chemistry and I guess she is going to go explore that now that she is free, for the first time since high school.
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