My Old Ass Is a Winning Coming-of-Age Comedy [Video]

It’s one of those interview questions asked of confident, accomplished women time and again: What advice would you give your younger self? Megan Park’s My Old Ass riffs on that stock question, but with a smart, perceptive twist: instead of treating the younger self as a clueless naif, it recognizes that teenagers often have more emotional resilience than even they recognize.

Freewheeling, mildly reckless Elliott (Nashville’s Maisy Stella) can’t wait for her life to start: in just a few weeks, she’ll leave her family’s Ontario farm for college in Toronto. The last thing she wants to be, she says, is a third-generation cranberry farmer, even if the idyllic, woodsy, lakeside setting of her life so far looks like the sort of place most people would want to rush toward. Still, she’s making the most of her last days on her home turf, tootling around the lake in her rusty motorboat, striking up a last-minute romance with …