"Why did you let it get this far?"
This Kickstarter-funded production finds young college student Sean coming home for the summer, reuniting with his old basketball team buddies and forming an unexpected attachment to his socially-awkward neighbour James that goes horribly wrong. Playing out a mish-mash of teen TV-movie-of-the-week issues ( including parental separation, sexual assault, coercion, self-harm and homophobia) in a rather simplistic and cliché fashion, it has the feel of a rather earnest but not very able youth theatre group being incredibly serious, but given the gravity of the matters being portrayed the bluntness of the execution undermines it all somewhat. It is largely competently made, although there are occasional framing and sound issues in this micro-budget effort.
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