Best friends who long ago accepted the rest of the world's ridiculousness have their solidarity tested in Antarctica, Keith Bearden's take on a teen-comedy model that always lives or dies by its stars' chemistry.
He finds that chemistry —albeit in a less high-wattage way than in, say, Booksmart — with the pairing of newcomer Kimie Muroya and Chloë Levine (The OA).
Together, the two bring out the humor in Bearden's skewed take on contemporary American weirdness without seeming to work for it.
The film's pleasures peter out when the leads are apart for too long, though; and since the script is determined to let each girl grow through solitary trials instead of shared ones, its second half is a bit of a letdown.
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