'Low Tide' (2019)
"Eight, nine, ten. A thousand. You boys find any more coins, give me a holler."
Once in a while, I like to watch a well-made, coming-of-age movie. A film about juvenile innocence in which a radical event shakes the pleasant life of one or more young people. A life experience many of them look back at, when they are adults, like in Stand By Me, where a group of comrades goes looking for a corpse to become famous. Mud is about two rascals helping a fugitive, and Rockaway shows two brothers who come up with a daring plan to get rid of their violent father. In most cases, things get a bit out of hand, making the impact on the involved kids even greater. Or it should be such a fairytale story as The Goonies (also aimed at a youthful audience), with a whopper of a happy ending, so that you can walk around for days with such a broad smile that people are convinced that a coat hanger got stuck in your mouth.
