A mysterious love triangle at a reform academy unfolds with dreamlike romance and mounting suspense.
Romantic and suspenseful. A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on YouTube (free) and Tubi (free).
It stays inside its PG-13, with no sex or nudity and mild language.
Rated PG-13, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine from about 7.
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Lucinda Price is sent to a reform academy under the assumption that she has killed a boy. There, she meets two mysterious boys, Cam and Daniel, to whom she feels drawn to both. But as the love triangle unfurls, it is Daniel that Luce cannot keep herself away from, and things begin to take a darker turn when she finds out his true identity.
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
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