Do you know who your kids are texting? Annie (Liana Liberato) is a typical 14-year-old suburbanite. Reading her instant-message conversations on-screen, the viewer is clued in to a secret life that her parents (Clive Owen and Catherine Keener) barely suspect—an ongoing, increasingly intimate correspondence with a boy in California who keeps confessing he’s slightly older than he’d confessed to being before. Annie sneaks off and meets still-older-than-she’d-expected Charlie (Chris Henry Coffey). The rest of the movie recounts the aftermath of their encounter. There is some ham-handed social commentary on the sexualizing of tweens by contemporary media: Annie and her best friend practice bump-and-grind music-video dance steps; ad exec Dad is seen working on a thinly disguised American Apparel-–style... More >>>