A good start but then gets bogged down with drama. Main person dives in a lake where the plane crashed to get a radio and sat phone... that has been under water for a day... doesn't really make sense why you'd dive and risk you life.
Then stays by the lake while no one is looking or knows where she is... oh but also she was on the scouts and know how to survive in the wild? Just a confusing movie trying to fit the plot line which is someone with issues that needs a psychiatrist.
Plot summary
Sydney is a troubled teen heading for trouble. After being caught shoplifting and a case of alcohol poisoning, Sydney's desperate single mother sends her off to the country to live with her father, Ben, and his new pregnant wife, Emma. Sydney misses her boyfriend, her city life and doesn't get on with her dad or stepmom. Slowly she starts to settle in as she makes friends with Jess, a local girl whose mother died of cancer. Sydney makes a couple of mistakes but after her grandfather's death the extended family start to heal.
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March 11, 2021 at 03:41 PM
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Living in the Cruel Shadow of Divorce
"Mom, Dad, and Her" (a.k.a., "Just Breathe") begins with the antics of quite possibly the biggest brat to ever grace a Lifetime film. Fifteen-year-old Sydney Fairfield is so mad at the world that she takes it out on anyone who crosses her path. The film actually appeared as if it would evolve into the horror genre with Sydney potentially wreaking havoc on the lives of extremely kind people like her dad Ben and his new and very pregnant wife Emma.
But one-third of the way into the picture, the perspective shifts in an attempt by the filmmakers to call attention to the horrific effects of divorce on the life of a child. In assessing the brat Sydney, the audience is forced to think back on the film's opening scene that portrays Sydney and her friends entering the backdoor of a church to spy on a wedding ceremony. While her cynical friends are smirking, Sydney is openly weeping at the ceremony that promises "love ever after" from the happy couple. Sydney is left to reflect on what "might have been" after her parents divorced and changed her life forever.
A turning point in the film occurs with the contact of Sydney with her thirty-nine-year-old stepmother, Emma, who actually begins to listen to Sydney. It is the bonding of the pregnant woman with the teenager that sustains the film through the second half. Sydney begins to feel warmth, respect, and, above all, trust in her stepmom.
Another interesting character in the film is the wise, old owl named Heather, who draws upon her own experience of raising children coming off a painful divorce, who provides guidance to Emma in providing a nurturing environment, as well as "tough love," for young Sydney.
The grand finale of the "divorce ceremony" that ritualizes both the separation and the original love felt by Sydney's parents, Ben and Lynn, may strike some viewers as an over-the-top cinematic choice. But it is clear that the filmmakers wanted to drive home the sobering realities faced by one million children annually when their families are torn asunder in divorce. While it is unclear if a divorce ceremony would ever catch on in the real world, at least in the escapist world of film, it provided a cathartic effect and hope for a clean slate for young Sydney.