As Cool as I Am (2013)

A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.

Director:

Max Mayer

Writers:

Pete Fromm (novel), Virginia Korus Spragg (screenplay)

Stars:

Sarah Bolger, Thomas Mann, James Marsden

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sarah Bolger	...	Lucy Diamond
Thomas Mann	...	Kenny Crauder
James Marsden	...	Chuck Diamond
Claire Danes	...	Lainee Diamond
Seth Adkins	...	Scott Booker
Tom Romero	...	Manager
Anika Noni Rose	...	Frances
Jeremy Sisto	...	Guy Karlsburg
Mario Batali	...	Himself
Beth Bailey	...	Mario's Female Guest
Josh Berry	...	Mario's Male Guest
Evan Adrian	...	Justin Havens
Will Peltz	...	Tim
Terry Walters	...	Libby
Rachel Hroncich	...	Nurse Amber Cremeens

Storyline

Sixteen-year-old Lucy is a tomboy. She gets on well with her father but is frequently separated from him for months on end when he goes to work in Canada. Her relationship with her mother is easy-going and she takes care of most things around the house. She tunes into her sexuality and her not so 'stable' family dynamics. She develops a relationship with her best friend Kenny and starts to realize that her parents' marriage is not as solid as she had previously imagined. She notices that her father's extended stays away from the family are not typical, and that her mother does not pine for her father as much as she herself does.

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Plot Keywords:

watching tv | small town | teenager | teenage girl | cheating wife | 

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Taglines:

How do you grow up when your parents haven't?

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for sexual content including an assault, and some teen drinking

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 June 2013 (USA)

Also Known As:

Aproape adulti

Filming Locations:

Belen, New Mexico, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Identity Films (I), Wind Dancer Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Lucy Diamond was based on the song "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"

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Goofs

At the beginning of the movie, when Lucy and Lainee eats at the diner, Lainee puts the ketchup bottle back on the table twice.

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Quotes

Lainee Diamond: Lainee: Why do people stay together in bad relationships I mean?
Frances: France: When you eat so much shit for so long, you don't even recognize the taste of it after a while.

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Soundtracks

Silver State
Written by Chad Justin Corley, Joshua Connell Schuberth, Stefan Pope
Performed by The Sleep-Ins
Courtesy of Taro Entertainment

User Reviews

A life in suburbs

The story unfolds about a family living in suburbs of a major town in United States, having husband and wife and their daughter. Father being a lumberjack stays away from home for the majority of the time. He is from the old school and thinks that family is a bond which should remain intact at all times whatever the circumstances may be. The mother who works at a local advertising agency is often dressed up way too bold unlike a mother has to be dressed. The daughter is free bird who has a boy friend since her childhood and she remained focuses on him. During the time the father is at home everybody restricts their normal routine and stay close to him and once he leaves for his job they return to their normal lives. The mother who got married at an early age still thinks that she is a unmarried woman and likes to screwed around to her follow employee's, and she dressed up in a fashion that she is a teenager which she is not supposed to do. The daughter in the later part of the movie started changing her boy friend and started to screw around like her mother. The father one day caught the daughter while she was making love to his boy friend tries to hit her boy friend who in fact was a strong guy over powered the father and hit him. The daughter tries to console dad who slap her on her face and left back to work as an escape route. The mother found her college boy friend and ran away with him to Mexico. The daughter joins a café and started showing cooking lessons. Till now! It was about the movie and their role the actors played but in real life in Pakistan, it does not hold true as depicted in the movie. The bond of family is not so weak that if husband is working in some other city or he is working late it means that the wife should start acting like a prostitute and should be screwing and flirting around and the daughter is screwing entire class for that matter. Though the acting and setting was perfect and I gave this movie 9 out of 10.