Dumped on her grandparents for the summer by her indifferent mother, acerbic and self-destructive teenager Greta disrupts the elderly couple's staid life on the Jersey Shore. Eventually, a romance helps Greta face down her demons.
Acting
Ellen Burstyn's side-eye could kill a man. Hilary Duff actually commits.
Writing
The diner scene where Greta reads her suicide note as dark comedy? Ouch.
Direction
Nancy Bardawil lets the Jersey Shore look genuinely melancholic.
Director
Nancy Bardawil
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Nancy Bardawil's only feature film; she spent years in music videos and commercials before and after.
Released at the tail end of Hilary Duff's Disney dominance, it bombed so hard it became a direct-to-DVD curiosity—now cult-adjacent among millennials who found it during 3am scrolling.
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