Your childhood best friend haunts your 21st in the best way possible.
On Astrid’s 21st birthday, when she stumbles upon her old memory box she’s transported into a dreamlike encounter with her childhood best friend Maggie. Together, they reminisce while confronting Astrid’s fears of growing up.
Acting
Wells and Hammond have the easy chemistry of actual shared history.
Direction
Sabol stretches 12 minutes into something that feels like a whole summer.
Director
Lizzy Sabol
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Lizzy Sabol made this as her thesis film at NYU, shooting the dream sequences in her own childhood bedroom.
The memory box itself was filled with actual artifacts from cast and crew's childhoods — that Polaroid of young Astrid is Diana Wells at age 7.
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