Poor 25-year-old Rosy (Ellie Moon) is floundering in a pink obsessed Barbie Land. She is the perfect nine-year-old girl in her dress style, choice of music and her general level of maturity. Just look at her room! Even her sleeping pills are pink.
Rosy was in foster care at age 6 as her mother died at three, her father disappeared and then the grandmother she lived with moved into long term care. She fantasizes about what most of us have for most of our lives, a parent or parents. She is “out of the system” reaching the age of majority and suffering manifest massive anxiety resulting from this exclusionary twist in her life.
So Rosy searches “adult adoption” websites trolling for a parent. She connects with an older man and all goes well until he says to Rosy that she is his peer and they should move to “next level” and she should stop searching for a parent. Rosy doesn’t take that observation well and moves on a new possible mother Jane (Rebecca Northan) but her obsession with Jane smothers that possible relationship. In a brilliant performance Northan rips into Rosy shredding her immaturity and self pity. Rosy matures rather quickly after that summed up in the recorded meditation that she listens to advising her that she is the creator of her own life. In a remarkable transformation Rosy becomes an adult. It could be that this remarkable transition is so convincing and authentic due to Moon’s acting ability. A delightfully frantic performance by Chelsea Muirhead as Nola.
A quirky storyline but this transformation of Rosy gives a deeper meaning to belonging and identity. A few jabs given to dating aps, religious cults and corporate office culture.
This Canadian film is directed by Karen Knox and it will be showing on the Hollywood Suite VOD system in Canada commencing 6January2024.
RKS 2024 Film Rating 86/100.
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