Pablo Schreiber and Jena Malone star as high-school sweethearts who reconnect 15 years later in this debut feature from Sabrina Doyle and the producers of 'The Florida Project.'
). Elsewhere, it takes off in jarring, wincingly earnest flights of fantasy and dream imagery revolving around a water motif. The effort is bold and sincere, but to call the result unwieldy would be an understatement.
The next morning, Wayland is dropped off at a church halfway house run by Pastor Gail . That's where, one night, he spots Dolores attending a single mom's support group. It turns out the two were together as teens, right up until Wayland was sent away for armed robbery. Dolores, aka Lola, was a swimming star whose Olympic dreams were dashed by an unplanned pregnancy soon after Wayland's conviction; she went on to have three kids by three different fathers.
Before long, the exes have picked up where they left off. Wayland moves in with Lorelei and her children: sweet, gender-nonbinary youngest Denim , volatile preadolescent Periwinkle and surly teen Dodger , who's mostly interested in bench-pressing and smoking pot. Luckily, the actors fill in some of the screenplay's blanks. Schreiber, who delivered indelible supporting turns on, flaunts leading man chops, playing Wayland as a not-terribly-bright hulk of a man with a deep inner wound radiating pain out to the surface. He's convincing, even when saddled with near-irredeemable lines .
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