After

Tessa Young (Josephine Langford) is a good girl. She is starting college and her simpleton boyfriend is still in high school. Her mother (Selma Blair) hates her new roommates. She is pulled into their party world and the mysterious bad boy Hardin Scott (Hero Fiennes Tiffin).

Langford is a beautiful girl but I would give her glasses to fit the role. Hardin is such a smirking British douche that it's impossible to root for this relationship. It's cringe-worthy how much I dread this movie going forward. The only meet-cute moment comes from the Great Gatsby difference. He needs to dial down the hipster vibe and dial up the bad boy personality. Her high school boyfriend isn't much better either and bookish Landon has no juice. Dread is the defining word for this movie. I'm guessing that this is 50 Shades for teen girls. It's just as bad. The plot is slower than molasses and obvious as F. The dialogue is clunkier than a Ford Pinto but this movie has no possibility of exploding. The breakdown of Jane Austen is simplistic and too broad while trying to be deeply literary. That's part of the clunky dialogue conundrum. It needs to be smart and it tries to absorb the smarts by commandeering literary classics. It fails the comparison. It would be smarter to debate the romantic possibilities of Fuller House. At least, it would be at its own level. With Langford and Tiffin, the movie has two models right out of a catalog. They are unable to deliver more dimensions to these characters. There are way too many montages although the aquarium looks great. This is indeed 50 Shades for teen girls.