Very Good Girls (2013)
Directed by Naomi Foner
Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time.
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The directorial debut of screenwriter Naomi Foner (Running on Empty) is a soap-opera starter kit with lead characters who are more spoiled than sympathetic, and it rings false in its portrayal of sisterhood and coming-of-age angst.
She wrote director Sidney Lumet’s 1988 movie “Running on Empty,” which earned her an Oscar nomination and co-star River Phoenix his only acting nomination, and she’s the mother of Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Very Good Girls can’t even blame rampant film-industry sexism, as it was written and directed by Naomi Foner, making her directorial debut after many years as a screenwriter (Running On Empty, Losing Isaiah, Bee Season).