After her mother's passing, 17-year-old Coley navigates new feelings of intimacy with Sonya in rural Oregon, where both girls must overcome their mutual uncertainties and self-doubt to embrace their connection.
"Love begins when you let it in."
Top Billed Cast
Maya da Costa
Coley
Myra Molloy
Sonya
Zach Braff
Curtis
Levon Hawke
Trenton
Alozie LaRose
Alex
Sierra Sidwell
SJ
Hunter Dillon
Goose
Sophia Carriere
Brooke
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
B Brent MarchantVerified TMDB Critic
2026-06-19
It’s genuinely heartening to see how much LGBTQ+ cinema has progressed over the part 30 years. When the genre was new, most of its releases fell into a limited handful of storylines, which, though groundbreaking at the time, have since been surpassed by numerous other works that have moved beyond the basics. And that’s why the debut feature from writer-director Hayley Kiyoko is such a huge disappointment. The film is a rather uninspired throwback more typical of pictures released in this genre in the 1980s, making the material seem quite dated compared to more contemporary offerings. Even ...
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2026-10-08
"Nicole" (aka "Coley" - Maya da Costa) is living with her stepdad "Curtis" (Zach Braff) and coming to terms with the recent accidental death of her mother. They have moved to a new location where she is struggling to settle in until, that is, she starts to befriend the popular "Sonya" (Myra Molloy) who seems to be having an on/off relationship with the frankly pretty obnoxious "Trenton" (Levon Hawke). It's soon quite clear that "Coley" feels something a little more intimate towards her new friend, the question is - does "Sonya" reciprocate? According to auteur Hayley Kiyoko, this film took ten...
