How I Live Now (2013)

American teen is sent to stay with her British cousins after her father remarries. She's not happy to be there and keeps the family at arm's length, even though they clearly want to bring her into the fold. The story was shaping up to be a quiet "coming of age" story with romance and healing and the whole nine yards. But then the story suddenly takes a shocking hard turn. The family is torn apart: girls to a foster situation where they work in fields all day and the boys somewhere else. But they're all determined to find their way back to the family home as soon as possible. 

I was totally invested. Even the whiff of incest didn't really bother me because it truly made sense in the context of their story. But things fell a little bit apart in the denouement, unfortunately. It was a strong movie with a dissatisfactory ending.

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