From giggly teens to a sultry (hey, not my word, it’s on the DVD cover! lol) barely-teen … I’ll admit, sometimes I have to be fairly predictable to get myself back in the movie-watching habit. This movie is gorgeous from the get go, cooling water you can practically feel on your skin in every scene, and I fall for New Zealand accents even when they don’t belong to a pair of eyes like those on Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki, who pretty much carries the movie on her own. Again it’s a 90 minute wonder, and it has a wonderful soundtrack, most if not all of it by Neil Finn, I didn’t realise until I saw his name in the end credits, all I knew was I was loving it.

It’s fairly uneventful and ultimately fairly predictable – though there is a great twist on the old, “older guy with a camera alone in the woods with an underage girl” scene while the slightly disappointing bulk of the ending transpires in the background. It’s another movie I don’t imagine falling over myself to see again, but for Wierzbicki it’s more than worth the time.

Having just kinda-sorta sung the praises of Bad Girls, I can’t very well damn this one entirely to hell because it pretty much does exactly the same thing. It’s ridiculously long considering the story; there’s nothing new that you didn’t see in the Eighties (I’d specifically make the oft-repeated comparison to An Officer and a Gentleman except I’m ashamed to admit I still haven’t really watched that movie … but I know enough to know the comparison is valid …); its opening is excruciatingly beleaguered. Yet, I’ve gotta admit, it’s perfectly watchable overall and the ending is sound. It even stirred my barely involved emotions in the end. It won’t be one I’ll revisit any time soon, if ever; but I don’t much regret watching it.