Adult Life Skills is populated by female characters who answer to no one but themselves. Her shattered and complacent heart is eventually unstuck with the help of her best friend (Rachael Deering) and a mischievous young camper who tugs at her emotions. Her stasis is rooted in unsettled grief over her dead twin brother, perhaps a contrived screenplay bit, but no less moving. Adult Life Skills is the rare sort of movie where the romantic subplot is truly relegated to the background, and the better for it Anna's resolve never stems from Brendan. During the day she works at a day camp where Brendan (Brett Goldstein), an endearingly awkward colleague, flirts with her, though he barely enters her viewfinder. In a damp shed in her mother's backyard, she burrows in the mismatched crochet linens or films videos of her two thumbs penned with simple smiley faces while she voices their amusing bickering about Rocky and existentialism and everything else. Soon to be 30 years old, Anna hasn’t quite grown up, nor does she seem to want to. There are other original surprises in Adult Life Skills, the debut feature from Rachel Tunnard, which handles arrested development in a small town in northern England. Anna (Jodie Whittaker) steals away into her mother’s house to fetch her laundry, still wet, and hurriedly microwaves her bra.
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