A young woman's sixteenth summer at the beach house brings first love, heartbreak, and profound change.
Romantic and earnest. A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Prime Video.
No surprises for a TV-14: some innuendo or implied sex and mild language.
Rated TV-14, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine from about 10.
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Every summer, Belly and her family head to the Fishers’ beach house in Cousins. Every summer is the same ... until Belly turns sixteen. Relationships will be tested, painful truths will be revealed, and Belly will be forever changed. It’s a summer of first love, first heartbreak and growing up — it's the summer she turns pretty.
It leaves things open rather than tying them up.
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