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***Mckenna Grace coming-of-age in the suburbs of northern Georgia*** Petite blonde Mckenna was 18yo during shooting and she’d turn 19 a month after wrapping. I bring her up because she plays the almost 17yo protagonist, Clara, and is one of the movie’s highlights. She’s winsome and precocious, not to mention she dresses in an attractive way without looking like a streetwalker. I’d put her in the same class as Kiernan Shipka, who’s over 7 years older; or maybe Hayden Panettiere when she was young (RIP). Yet this is more than just a coming-of-age flick, as it’s just as much about Clara’s mother (Allison Williams) and the situation in which she finds herself. Speaking of which, the film starts out in a conventional way but soon pulls the rug out from under you with inventive writing. I don’t want to say anymore because it’s best to go into this knowing as little as possible. Sure, later on there are a couple of predictable bits, so what else is new? On the masculine front, Dave Franco stands out as a Clark Kent type while Mason Thames is effective as Clara’s potential beau. Clancy Brown is also on hand as Gramps. At the end of the day this is a quality drama with lots of emotion that smacks of real-life, yet it doesn’t forget to be amusing when fitting. It leaves with a good feeling rather than a sour taste.    It runs 1h 56m and was shot Mar-May 2025 in areas east of Atlanta (Covington for some key scenes, Clarkston for the coffee place, Duluth for the high school, and Decatur for the cemetery), but also to the south of the metropolis in Morrow (the cinema, located next to the Southlake Mall). GRADE: A-