“It was something in those dazzling eyes,” she says. Juli, the more willful of the two, remembers the moment she “flipped” for Bryce on the day her family moved into the house across the street from his. The two take turns narrating the story in a she-said, he-said format, as they recall the same incidents. This wisp of a movie observes the evolving relationship of Juli and Bryce, who live across the street from each other. Even the songs are chronologically synced to the six years during which its two main characters, Juli Baker (Madeline Carroll) and Bryce Loski (Callan McAuliffe), proceed from grade school to junior high. Reiner and Andrew Scheinman, the period is visualized with an almost surreal fixation on detail and atmosphere. (He was born in 1947.) In “Flipped,” adapted from a young-adult novel by Wendelin Van Draanen, with a screenplay by Mr. Reiner showed in his 1986 film, “Stand by Me,” he has a feel for the era. But as the movie’s soundtrack of golden oldies unwinds in the background, you can’t help being struck by the romantic optimism and modesty of early rock ’n’ roll ditties cranked out in the years before the term high-tech entered the vocabulary.Īs Mr. Suburban America in the late 1950s and early ’60s as depicted in “Flipped,” Rob Reiner’s sentimental ode to puppy love in that innocent era, might as well be another world, for all its resemblance to the one we live in today.
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