![]() ![]() They begin to anonymously place posters throughout their community, starting slow, and then as with any obsession, filling all their waking time on the project. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us.” So instead of tumbling into John Green teen-passion territory, Frankie and Zeke find themselves – and their most profound emotional connection – by making art together: a poster that contains the phrase: “The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. This makes sense when we learn about their broken or breaking families: both Frankie and Zeke are living with their single mothers Frankie’s mother is divorced, Zeke’s mother is running from a cheating husband. In the summer of 1996, two awkward 16-year-olds – Frances “Frankie” Budge, an aspiring writer, and Zeke Brown, an aspiring artist – meet at a public pool in Coalfield, Tennessee, and strike up the kind of kinetic friendship that we sense will end in a memorable coming-of-age romance, the kind that Netflix teen movies are made of, filled with open-window car drives to a soundtrack of the director’s favorite Replacements songs.īut Frankie and Zeke are so wildly uncomfortable in their own skins that even their furtive kisses feel painful as if both teens are afraid of becoming too physically close to each other, the notion of sex seemingly anathema to both. ![]()
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