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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Wendy Ide

Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt) review – lesbian romcom could do better

Teenage high school girls in classroom
Rescuing the screenplay – Sophie Hawkshaw and Zoe Terakes. Photograph: Rhiannon Hopley/PR

It could have been a sweet, gay coming-of-age story about a girl whose sexual awakening is complicated by unwelcome gay mentorship from the ghost of her lesbian aunt. But there’s a disconnect between the naive but well-intentioned storytelling and the explosive swearing that ensures a 15 certificate and places the film out of reach of the younger teen audience who might, otherwise, have been its most receptive. Still, as Ellie and Abbie respectively, Sophie Hawkshaw and Zoe Terakes make light work of a somewhat heavy-handed screenplay.

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