Girl in Progress

Movie Ranked #900 | 2012 - Comedy, Drama
As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
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Best two reviews:
1) New York Magazine (Vulture) - The movie goes soft. But it has the unpretentious energy and charm of a good YA girls' novel. (Rating: 60) Read Full Review >
2) Village Voice - Unconvincing, flawed matriarch Mendes and junior showboat Ramirez appear to be acting in entirely different movies. (Rating: 40) Read Full Review >

Worst two reviews:
2) Time Out New York - Uneasily poised between glib irony and earnest melodrama, Patricia Riggen's coming-of-age tale is as scattered as its manic pubescent protagonist. (Rating: 40) Read Full Review >
3) Slant Magazine - Girl in Progress operates like a training-wheels melodrama for genre-uneducated tweens. (Rating: 25) Read Full Review >
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