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The Lifeguard
2013
· Movie
· 98 min
F
MEANRANK
48/100
Every rating
16–70
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 16, highest is AlloCiné on 70. Critics average 25, everyone else 55.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Leigh, feeling unfulfilled, quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She takes a job as a lifeguard, regresses into adolescent behavior, and begins a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager, leading to consequences for everyone involved.
Details
- Director
- Liz W. Garcia
- Writer
- Liz W. Garcia
- Studio
- La Pistola, Attic Light Films
- Released
- 30 August 2013
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Rated
- R
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