The Lifeguard
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| Directed by | Liz W. Garcia |
| Produced by | Liz W. Garcia Milan Chakraborty Joshua Harto Mike Landry Ed McWilliams Carlos Velazquez |
| Written by | Liz W. Garcia |
| Starring |
Kristen Bell David Lambert |
| Music by | Fred Avril |
| Cinematography | John Peters |
| Edited by | Jennifer Davidoff Cook Elizabeth Kling |
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Attic Light Films
C Plus Pictures Houndstooth La Pistola Productivity Media Wild Invention |
| Distributed by |
Focus World Screen Media Films |
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98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Lifeguard is a 2013 American drama produced, written, and directed by Liz W. Garcia, and starring Kristen Bell and David Lambert. The film was released via video on demand on July 30, 2013, and received a limited release in theaters on August 30.
Reporter Leigh London is a talented writer living in New York City. She is in a relationship with an engaged man and finds it hard to accept his situation. After becoming disillusioned with her life in the city, she decides to leave (without notifying her job) and go back to her hometown. Her mother questions why she has returned so suddenly but her father is delighted, especially after Leigh announces her decision to stay indefinitely. She becomes reacquainted with two of her former friends, art appraiser Todd and vice principal Mel. While having some drinks with them, she announces that she's taken up her old high school job of the lifeguard's position of the community pool, where she meets the maintenance man's son Jason.
Over the next few weeks, she becomes friends with Jason and his best friend Matt, and encourages wild behavior on her two high school friends, hanging out with the teens and smoking pot. Todd happily goes along with Leigh's behavior; while Mel does too, it takes its toll on her relationship with her husband as they are trying to conceive a baby. Leigh begins to spend a lot more time with Jason, and soon she realizes her attraction to him and vice versa. One night, after hanging out at the pool after hours with their friends, Leigh goes to the bathroom/changing room where Jason follows. They then kiss and immediately have sex on the sink basin. This starts a relationship between the two that continues over the summer, leading to frequent sexual encounters. One day while the two are having sex in bed, Leigh realizes she's falling in love with Jason and talks him into staying around longer instead of moving to Vermont with Matt as he had planned. Matt has been kicked out by his mother and has made it clear that he is desperate to leave town.
After Jason postpones the Vermont plans, Matt becomes very disheartened. Meanwhile, Mel's husband becomes increasingly frustrated with her "carefree" behavior. While at the pool one morning, Todd discovers Leigh and Jason kissing but doesn't say anything. Leigh's mother asked her to move out as she isn't the only one trying to get their life in order; Leigh stays with Jason. Her cat goes missing in the process. Todd lets it slip to Mel that Leigh is staying at Jason's and Mel discovers the relationship between the two, to her horror. She approaches Leigh in anger and plans to inform Jason's father. Leigh and Jason then go searching for her cat, only to discover Matt has committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree in the woods. Matt repeatedly mentions throughout the film that he hates life in the town and is desperate to get to Vermont. It seems Jason's postponement was his last bit of hope broken.
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