A Girl Like Grace

This movie worked my nerves at times because it was too slow. It finally started moving along when I decided to watch something else. Besides having to watch actors clearly in their 30's and I know two of the mean girls were pushing 40 or flip over it playing teenagers, it was an okay movie.

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.

A lot of bad acting. The plot is well thought but the acting is terrible.

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

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.