Palm Trees and Power Lines
About Palm Trees and Power Lines
Seventeen-year-old Lea spends her summer break tanning in her backyard, and drifting between tiptoeing around her needy mother, and aimlessly trailing her best friend and boys from school. This monotony is interrupted by a chance encounter with Tom, a seductive man twice her age who promises an alternative to Lea's unsatisfying adolescent life.
Palm Trees and Power Lines is a 2023 romance film directed by Jamie Dack. It runs 111 minutes and was released in March 2023.
The film is filed under based on short film, clinical, sexual grooming, and coming of age.
Lily McInerny stars as Lea, Jonathan Tucker as Tom, Gretchen Mol as Sandra, and Auden Thornton as Katie. The screenplay is by Audrey Findlay and Jamie Dack. American members can watch it on Lionsgate+ Amazon Channel.
Lady Bird, Turning Red, and Yes, God, Yes make useful companions to Palm Trees and Power Lines, all filed under mother daughter relationship and teenage girl. TMDB voters put it at 6.3 out of 10 across 71 votes and it carries a R rating.