Sweetheart

Marley Morrison's delightfully whimsical coming-of-age comedy won the Audience Award at the Glasgow Film Festival, was nominated for five British Independent Film Awards and was hailed by the press as one of the best British films of the year. A real feel-good movie!

Introverted 17-year-old AJ is interested in the really important things, such as how to knit jumpers for elephants or how methane from cows is destroying our planet. She is less enthusiastic about the upcoming family holiday: a whole week with her stuffy parents and her annoying sister in a boring party complex on the Dorset coast, where there is not even WiFi - the sheer horror! AJ prepares for the worst seven days of her life. Until she meets lifeguard Isla, who smells beguilingly of chlorine ...