A Girl Like Grace

I really liked this movie, but wish the characters backgrounds could have been developed more. There were lots of flashbacks to the past, but without any real explanations or specific details of what happened. All the characters are flawed, as all human beings are, and there is a lot of tragedy shaping the main characters. Ryan Destiny is a great actress who portrays Grace, a troubled teenager who is coming of age after losing her best friend to suicide the summer before her senior year of high school. I enjoyed her relationship with Meagan Good's Share (Grace's best friend's older sister) although Share's character is somewhat confusing. The ending is confusing too...leaving questions about Share's future fate unanswered. Motivations were unclear at times. Excellent story and interesting characters, but individual personalities could have been explored in much more depth than they were. Still, I was emotionally vested in the characters' pain, & cried at the end of the movie

What the hell is raven doing playing a high schooler in this movie when she's 30? HELLA creepy casting when it came to that...

Not a pg-13 movie . 1 part a girl takes a younger girl into a porn shop . You can hear loud moaning amongst other things you see and hear in a porn shop 2nd the high school girls do a little song a dance that's explicit "pop this cherry I know you wanna eat it " etc . ect. Third there is a scene where a man gives a woman oral sex. No nudity is seen but the scene is very explicit and inappropriate for a "pg13" movie There's some talk about girls being lesbians That's just to name a few. No need to go into the rest of the movie you get the idea. This movie is rated R not of 13

I rate movies based on their ability to leave me with new questions. I left wanting to understand more about the mother (played by Garcelle Beauvais) - to deconstruct her if you will - from the fear she had about her daughter's sexual identity (what exactly was her underlying fear? why wasn't she more afraid of the fate her daughter would meet at the hands of sexual predators and/or men who might otherwise exploit her?); to the lack of what I'd like to call a maternal muscle; and, to her own inherited broken cycles of what love looks and feels like. I wanted to know more about how class and culture affected her capacity to render the kind of nurture and compassion that her daughter (played by Ryan Destiny) so desperately needed.

Ultimately, this was a movie about identity and beauty; how we see ourselves and the way we think the rest of the world sees us and/or the ones we love is absolutely critical to who we ultimately become.

Grace's braid changed 30x on the first day. AA movies don't have to lack like this😔 We have to let others live their life.