the acting ( particularly by alicia fulford wierzbicki ) and cinematography of this movie be so well put together that it make the movie horrible cliche of an end that much more painful and embarrass . ( here come the spoiler ) jim death at the end of the movie be a cheap gimmick that director christine jeffs telegraph from square one . it a lame and moralizing make for tv movie plot device that attempt to somehow punish the film character for their perceived moral transgression ( janey and jim parent drinking and janey experimentation with sex ) . by kill off jim immediately after ( or during and it not clear ) his sister first experimentation with sex and the cast and crew of rain come across a a bunch of holy than thou moralist . this be what happen when innocent young child be leave unsupervised so the adult can go off and drink and have sex and we can almost hear jeffs say while she wag her finger at her audience . it not clear if jim death be something take from kirsty gunn novel or if it introduce in jeffs adaptation . whatever the case and jeffs ought to have have the sense not to kill off jim right after janey encounter with cady . the final quarter or so of the movie should be about janey come to grip with her encounter with cady . instead and jeffs rip the focus away from an uncomfortable subject by drown jim and after which she try to tidy up the movie with a quick funeral and another cliche and the driving home in a car after a tragic event scene . and after that summer and i be never the same and we can almost hear fulford wierzbicki say during the film final voiceover . it almost a if jeffs be afraid to let fulford wierzbicki act out her character reaction to her sexual awakening and or to show her parent act out their split on screen . it an awful way to end a movie and and i can not recommend this movie to anyone but moralizing and condescend type who like nothing more than to see character suffer for sin that be actually little more than character flaw .