Sophie Jones (2021)

Being 16 years old is tough times for most everyone.  Raging hormones, high school, puberty for some, but for poor Sophie Jones (Jessica Barr), she isn't just going through all of that, she dealing with the very recent death of her mother to go along with normal teenage stuff.  So pile on a big ol' heaping bunch of grief into this teenager's day to day coping mechanisms and we get to ride shotgun on Sophie's horrible year.  Sophie decides that she isn't going to turn to drugs, drinking, cutting, or sex as her way to deal with her loss, but she isn't necessarily going to shy away from anything that'll help her feel something other than sadness as she comes to terms with her and her family's loss.  Along the way, she spends time with her best friend Claire (Claire Manning), going swimming in their favorite lakes in the Pacific Northwest setting.  She also begins to have a brief little romance with a local boy she's had a crush on for some time, Kevin (Skyler Verity), who proves to be more supportive than she anticipated and she begins to fall for him in this tear-jerker from star and screenwriter Jessica Barr.  Jessica teamed up with real-life cousin Jessie Barr (who directed) to helm this indie flick about growing up too quickly after tragedy strikes.  Jessica Barr makes her Nudecomer debut in this one, showing her butt in a sex scene and cutie Claire Manning shows us her bikini bod for a bit as well as they swim for our Skin take-aways!