![]() ![]() ![]() But the biggest problem with Leigh’s timeout, besides her overly shrewish mom, is her reckless, torrid affair with a 16-year-old skater with bedroom eyes (David Lambert). ![]() Her unabashed pause from life seems to inspire her friends - an assistant principal (Mamie Gummer) with an uptight husband and a closeted gallery owner (Martin Starr of “Freaks and Geeks”) - to take a breather as well. Watch The Lifeguard Online Fleeing a journalism job, or, rather, a terminated affair with her suddenly engaged editor, Leigh (Kristen Bell) returns to the toil of her youth, that standby of summer employment indicated in the film’s title. Garcia, a writer for television, bears some echoes of its creator’s origins, going from deft to trite in its drama and setting up character arcs that feel sappily resolved within its feature length. Tales of summertime (or lifelong) regression have tended to involve comically adrift men, but “The Lifeguard” follows a woman just shy of 30 as she moves back in with her family in Connecticut. ![]()
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