Anatomy of the Tide looks at the lives of three just graduated seniors preparing for their first summer in their new adult world. Filmed in the picturesque fishing village of Vinalhaven on Rock Harbor Island 40 miles up the Maine coast from Portland, the town hides some dark secrets and tough family situations. First is the glamor boy ladies man Brad (Robbie Amil), a red neck trailer kid with a tough solo mom but who falls on his feet with smooth moves with Brigette Harriman (Spencer Locke), back at the family 'cabin' from Yale and from a wealthy finance family with her almost fiance Naval Academy heartthrob and quarterback Donny (Nathan Keyes). Brigette falls for Brad and dumps Donny against the intense opposition of her father. Brad takes the ship captain test and passes and it's his ticket off the island.
Kyle (Gabriel Basso) comes from a humble fishing family with his Dad struggling after the freakish death of his then 14 year old son on his first day out on the boat. Kyle is a bright and clever financially savvy kid who becomes enmeshed in two brewing huge legal scandals. The first involves him overhearing in a restaurant executives from an up and coming biotech company planning to sandbag their own breakthrough technology to make a fortune on short selling. The boys score a summer job working on Brigette's fathers' fancy property and Kyle then overhears a conversation with Brigette's market insider Godmother who has Kyle detail what he heard and then brings in the SEC who bust the crooked executives thanks to Kyle's testimony. 2 sub plots brew in Kyle's life: 1st-his fathers desire to rescue his floundering fishing business by having Kyle forgo a placement at Harvard Business School by throwing away his admission letter. Kyle, still only 17, finds out the good news anyway and tells his father he is going to Harvard and he can't stop him. 2nd - as a child, Kyle was abused by a preacher who bought his silence with baseball cards and the District Attorney from Portland comes to Kyle pleading for his help in testifying against him which he eventually does.
This movie is extremely compelling. The young lead actors, particularly only 17 year old Gabriel Basso, were fantastic portraying some very difficult and intense coming-of-age issues. It also gives a perfect snapshot of the life in the fishbowl of a small, tight knit community reliant on only fishing and summer tourists all against the backdrop of gorgeous scenery.
Kyle (Gabriel Basso) comes from a humble fishing family with his Dad struggling after the freakish death of his then 14 year old son on his first day out on the boat. Kyle is a bright and clever financially savvy kid who becomes enmeshed in two brewing huge legal scandals. The first involves him overhearing in a restaurant executives from an up and coming biotech company planning to sandbag their own breakthrough technology to make a fortune on short selling. The boys score a summer job working on Brigette's fathers' fancy property and Kyle then overhears a conversation with Brigette's market insider Godmother who has Kyle detail what he heard and then brings in the SEC who bust the crooked executives thanks to Kyle's testimony. 2 sub plots brew in Kyle's life: 1st-his fathers desire to rescue his floundering fishing business by having Kyle forgo a placement at Harvard Business School by throwing away his admission letter. Kyle, still only 17, finds out the good news anyway and tells his father he is going to Harvard and he can't stop him. 2nd - as a child, Kyle was abused by a preacher who bought his silence with baseball cards and the District Attorney from Portland comes to Kyle pleading for his help in testifying against him which he eventually does.
This movie is extremely compelling. The young lead actors, particularly only 17 year old Gabriel Basso, were fantastic portraying some very difficult and intense coming-of-age issues. It also gives a perfect snapshot of the life in the fishbowl of a small, tight knit community reliant on only fishing and summer tourists all against the backdrop of gorgeous scenery.
