The Florida Project (2017)

Directed by Sean Baker · Drama

Starring Willem Dafoe, Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Valeria Cotto, Christopher Rivera, Caleb Landry Jones, Mela Murder, Aiden Malik, Macon Blair, Sabina Friedman-Seitz, Karren Karagulian, Sandy Kane, Carl Bradfield, Gary B. Gross, Sonya McCarter, Josie Olivo, Rosa Medina Perez, Jasineia Ramos, Kit Sullivan, Patti Wiley, Jason Blackwater, Jim R. Coleman, Kelly Fitzgerald, Krystal Gordon, Betty Jeune, Joanne Moreno, Lauren O'Quinn, Edward Pagan, Samantha Parisi, Cecilia Quinan, Shail Kamini Ramcharan, Giovanni Rodriguez, Adina Sutton, Bronwyn Valley

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The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.

My review · Reviewed 04/04/2018

This movie wasgoodbut by no means great. It does a fantastic job of showing a snapshot in time of the kids and their parents and that in itself is very interesting. In that sense it very much reminded me of "Boyhood" but that film had the added layer of actually following the characters through the boy's formative years. I felt like after seeing 20 minutes of this film that I had pretty much seen all that I needed to see.

overrated, coming of age