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People seem to think you only come of age once in your life. That strange limbo between the teenage years and adulthood isn’t the only time a person’s life is wholly upended, but the coming-of-age movie is usually reserved for that period. Of course, everyone who’s made it out of their teenage years knows this is just the first of many moments of upheaval that will come around in a lifetime. Sam Hayes’ Pools is a special coming-of-age flick that manages to transcend time, space, and age to tell one of the sweetest stories ever told: how to grow up. In the midst of her whole life falling apart, Kennedy attempts to somehow reconnect with her dead father, searching for permission to live her own life within a wild pool-hopping escape through the elaborate estates of her college town. Pools is refreshing and alive, and evokes the feeling of diving into the deep end of a swimming pool in the dog days of summer.