O Amadurecer de Andy

If you want to take a nap watch this one.

Acting is so boring.

Could not give this less than one star, so here goes; I am not a sentimentalist when it comes to movies but I would like to see an ending making my time worth while. Kept hoping for some redemption but as the movie progressed nothing made it more worth the time. At the end I think if she could have backed the car up and run over Ryan at least someone could have gotten his just dues.

Take it from me, an appointment with a dentist for a root canal without anesthetic would have been more enjoyable!

So an old white man work his ass off and had a profiting orchard that in his later years became not profitable due to changes in the poor quality of life of California

Tried to make it about a strong woman which could have really turned into a good story

Especially if she was successful even though she was also White

By the way I'm being smart it wouldn't have mattered the color of her skin but based on some of the other reviews on here it's just a joke what kind of movie this turned out to be and what it could have been

Really could have been a great story about a strong woman saving a beautiful profitable orchard and pass it on to the family if they're willing to work for it and by the way no matter the color of skin but someone with great character and good work ethic.

Andy is a 16-yr-old girl living and working with her grandfather on his fruit farm in California, an area in the northern part of the wine country. Her mother is no longer alive, she has an aunt who is a chef in San Francisco. Andy is very handy, a very serious and hard worker that also is able to repair most things that break on the farm. But grandpa has a secret, the farm is broke, it may be on the verge of forced sale.

One evening Andy is cooking dinner and gramps doesn't respond when she calls him. She finds him passed away in his chair. This brings a new hurdle, the land is willed to Andy but being under legal age must become a ward of her aunt. That doesn't go easy as Andy had long ago built up a disrespect for her aunt who she thinks deserted the family and the farm.

The story is mainly about Andy figuring out where she wants to go with her life, and part of that is struggling with her sexual identity. It isn't addressed directly but when a boy, a long-time friend, kisses her later she tells a friend that it didn't feel like anything. My own interpretation is that she was not into boys.

My wife and I watched it at home, streaming on Amazon Prime. It is not a long movie, right about 80 minutes and all the cast are second-tier actors. It has the feel of a made-for-TV movie. While we enjoyed the drama and Andy's working through her struggles we both observed that it ended with no resolution. Except maybe farming is not a good future for a young girl and it took the events to teach that to her. A coming of age.

This is a slow winding film that has humorous moments wrapped up in an inevitable life changing drama. Highlights are the lead character's unrelenting determination even when the odds are stacked against her. Definitely a heroine drama, need more films that draw on the themes presented in this film. Bravo! And it's beautifully filmed on a pear farm, such a lovely cinematic journey.

If you live almost anywhere in the U. S there is a cultural divide between urban and rural life, and this film reveals the economic drivers that underscore this tension, but mostly the film treats the cultural/social issues sensitively and honestly. No cliches here and that is so refreshing.