Based on the novel of the same name by Jenny Han (“To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before”), “The Summer I Turned Pretty” is a perfectly distracting piece of summer fluff.
Newcomer Lola Tung stars as teenager Isabel “Belly” Conklin, whose family’s annual summer trip to Cousins Beach, Virginia gets shaken up by both family drama and Belly’s burgeoning sexuality.
Every year, Belly, her older brother Steven (Sean Kaufman), and her novelist mother Laurel (Jackie Chung) spend the summer staying at the beach house of rich family friend Susannah (Rachel Blanchard, “Fargo S1”).
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