
This Summer Growing Up is Optional
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.
- 5.4
- 2013
- Released
- 1h 38m

Kristen Bell
Leigh
Mamie Gummer
Mel
Martin Starr
Todd
Joshua Harto
John
Alex Shaffer
Matt
David Lambert
Little Jason
Amy Madigan
Justine
Adam LeFevre
Hans
John Finn
Big Jason
Paulie Litt
Lumpy
Sendhil Ramamurthy
Raj
Carlos Velazquez
Marco
Lisa Ann Goldsmith
Matt's Mom
Cody Hartman
Sullen Teenager
Tom Kondilas
Officer Federici
Marty Landry
Drowning Boy
Joe Fishel
Pedestrian
Mike Landry
Officer Miller
Debbie College
Tabitha
Fabio Polanco
Landlord
Terri Middleton
Matt's Aunt
John Mancini
Bartender
Released
en
- #new york city
- #suicide
- #home
- #swimming pool
- #marijuana
- #reporter
- #relationship
- #childhood
- #lifeguard
- #valedictorian
- #woman director
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***A successful-yet- disheartened adult goes back home to refresh, but momentarily forgets she’s an adult*** An overachieving 29 year-old reporter in New York City (Kristen Bell) experiences burnout and so flees to her hometown in Connecticut where she gets her old lifeguard job back at the local pool. She reunites with old friends as well as establishes new relations with the teens that freque











