Surviving Crooked Lake

These girls are cute, they all have a willowy presence and purposefully youthful sensuality, but they are novice actors and it shows.

Surviving Crooked Lake offers tension and honest emotion while making good use of its clearly limited financial resources.

Too often, volatile scenes of interpersonal tension and fear stretch the green cast thin.

Modest Canadian thriller Surviving Crooked Lake, playing matinees this weekend at the Regent, is a combination coming-of-age teen drama and survival thriller.