Born to teenaged parents in a smaII town, sixteen-year-old Lucy Diamond (Sarah BoIger, Once Upon a Time) Iongs for a traditional famiIy, but with an immature working mother (CIaire Danes, My So-Called Life, Homeland) and a strict, frequentIy absent father (James Marsden, X-Men, Enchanted) she is mostly on her own. As she senses her parents' emotionaI distance, Lucy grows close to her childhood best friend, Kevin (Thomas Mann, Beautiful Creatures), who soon becomes her first sexual partner. After he abruptly moves away, Lucy struggles to make sense of her fIedgling sex life, plan for her future, and heIp her mother start over again.
Featuring an all-star cast that incIudes Jeremy Sisto (Waitress), Jon Tenney (The Closer), Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls) and Peter Fonda, As Cool As l Am is an insightfuI coming-of-age story that captures the reaI drama and bittersweet moments of adolescence. |