The Lifeguard

2013

Action / Drama / Romance

39
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 16% · 32 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 27% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 15648 15.6K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Liz W. Garcia Photo
Liz W. Garcia

Top cast

Kristen Bell Photo
Kristen Bell as Leigh
Joshua Harto Photo
Joshua Harto as John
Adam LeFevre Photo
Adam LeFevre as Hans
Mike Landry Photo
Mike Landry as Officer Miller
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
729.34 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 2
1.51 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Wuchak 8 / 10

***A successful-yet- disheartened adult goes back home to

***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 isn’t a good mix if the adult throws wisdom to the wind. "The Lifeguard" (2013) is a realistic slice-of-life drama that meshes "Lifeguard" (1976) and “Summer of ’42” (1971) with elements of "Snow Angels" (2007). The opening turned me off with its hand-held-camera Indie vibe, but the story eventually pulled me in and the movie turned out to be a pleasant surprise, even a bit of a hidden gem. Leigh (Bell) wanted to go back to her hometown to recapture her carefree adolescent happiness while the teen dudes ironically wanted to escape the mundane town to experience real life. Once an adult, however, you can never be a teen again. It’s gone forever. Everything smacks of real life: the good, the foolish and the ugly. Questions of wisdom (boundaries), responsibility and morality are effectively explored. The movie runs 1 hour, 38 minutes, and was shot in Sewickley Valley, Pennsylvania, just northwest of Pittsburgh. GRADE: A-
Reviewed by playboi-96678 7 / 10

Good movie

I thought this was a really good movie.

Whats bullshit is Netflix has movies like this with 1 or 2 stars that people don't watch and pass up because of the low ratings. I wish they would give IMDb ratings so that I could really gauge what to give a chance.

But anyways, again I thought it was a really good movie, with a realistic plot and story line. I thought it would have a "lifetime" feel to it but it had a life of its own.

If you don't have much to do, and you have an hour or two on your hands to watch a movie, I suggest this one.

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