I was so looking forward to watching this after reading the reviews on Amazon Prime. From the outset I had to tap my reserve of disbelief suspensions. There were so many plot contrivances, Stranger Things seemed more believable. So, George is going to confront a stranger in a parking lot even though he hadn't even begun backing his car into the parking spot? Their exchange that ensued was ridiculous but really set the tone for the next 90 minutes of one cliche after another. Two attractive parents who just start to connect from there and need each other. Edith is just so hip and irresistible. The two steal bikes and crash a theater class which of course they participate in and blow the instructor away. Edith of course brings all this out of George by saying and doing things that are not only unbelievable but also annoying and immature. The two kids act like they are so oppressed and wise beyond their years with their first world problems. I'm I supposed to empathize with them? The girl is particularly dramatic with her histrionics that we are no doubt supposed to love her for. "I only act like this around people I like." Both kids talk to their parents with disrespect. Edith and her daughter treat other people with contempt, like defiant children. How noble of George to stand up to the one guy who mouthed off to Edith during a separate tour (are we supposed to clap?). Then others kept correcting George when he said "planetarium" instead of "observatory" as if it is material. Unlike other reviewers, I turned it off with about a half hour left since I no longer cared. The campus was beautiful but the characters were shallow and need to grow up.
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