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The Lifeguard

This Summer Growing Up is Optional

5.5(308)20131h 38m1

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.

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English
  • new york city
  • suicide
  • home
  • swimming pool
  • marijuana
  • reporter
  • relationship
  • childhood
  • lifeguard
  • valedictorian
  • woman director

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalR30 Aug 2013
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical24 Feb 2014
  • FranceFR

    • Digital / OTT16Netflix30 Sept 2016
  • SwedenSE

    • Theatrical10 Nov 2013

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The Lifeguard was released on 30 August 2013.

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    Wuchak

    11/11/2019

    8/10

    ***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 frequent the pool, which i…

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