A couple's earnest romance in a small town faces life's defining events with melancholy and feel-good moments.
Romantic. A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Netflix.
The thing to know: moderate sex and nudity, more than a PG-13 usually carries. Beyond that, mild language and no real violence.
Our estimate: fine from about 16, higher than the PG-13 suggests, because of the sex and nudity.
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Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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