Girlhood is a semi-regular series hosted by Arkadin co-owner Sarah Baraba that spotlights stories of sisterhood on the silver screen.

“There is authenticity everywhere in this film, from the way people speak to the cruelty that sometimes occurs between best friends.” – The Herald

In the 1980s there certainly was no dearth of preteen coming-of-age-cinema, but few that portray the purity, terror and excitement of that specific time of growing up with the authenticity of the tragically overlooked Old Enough. Every day on her way to the summer camp bus, 11-year-old Lonnie Sloan (Sarah Boyd) passes a group of neighborhood kids engaged in some mischief that she, with her upper-class upbringing, can scarcely fathom. On a morning like any other she encounters the streetwise Karen (Rainbow Harvest), who talks sheltered Lonnie into playing hooky and takes her out of her brownstone bubble and into a blue collar world full of shoplifting and Catholicism. The girls couldn’t come from more different backgrounds, but the exoticism of the other’s life makes their newfound friendship instantly magnetic. Following the girls through a sliver of their summer, writer-director Marisa Silver captures that feeling of stepping outside of your nest for the first time. 

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