Underplayed Gems

Float (2023)

Float poster
Directed by
Sherren Lee
Genre
romance, drama
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 162 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young woman has a strained relationship with her parents. She spends the summer before college with her aunt in a beach town, where she takes swimming lessons from a lifeguard and falls into a romance.

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What happens

Float is a 2023 Canadian drama film, directed by Sherren Lee. The film stars Andrea Bang as Waverly, a young woman with a tense relationship with her parents who decides to spend the summer before starting university staying with her aunt in the coastal beach town of Holden, based on Tofino, where she is drawn into a romance with lifeguard Blake (Robbie Amell) when he gives her swimming lessons. The film was written by Lee and Jesse LaVercombe, as an adaptation of a Wattpad story by writer Kate Marchant. The character of Waverly was not written as being of Asian ancestry in the original story, but Lee chose to write the film adaptation that way so that she could draw on some of her own cultural background. The film premiered at the 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival, and screened in the Canadian Narrative Competition at the 2023 Calgary International Film Festival. It went into commercial release on February 9, 2024. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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