First, a couple cautionary notes: this is a very white and cis/het movie, shot in North Little Rock, in which the biggest cultural divide is between "old country" and "new country" and in which going to an evangelical church with Christian rock on Sunday is a positive thing in people's lives. I understand that this may not have good associations for everyone.
I don't go out looking for movies as culturally vanilla as this as a rule, but it doesn't strike me that this movie goes out of its way to beat you over the head with the Bible. It's actually a pretty realistic movie about a period in the life of a woman who has a productive working life during the day and then tries to fill the void at night with alcohol and whatever she gets from the guys she picks up in the local bar. She hasn't had great relationship models in her life, apparently, and the movie catches her at a time when she is trying to, well, get better.
This setup could easily lead either to a tragic ending or a rom-com ending wrapped up with a Hallmark/GAC movie Christmas bow. SPOILER: it doesn't do either one. Some of the things that might be going somewhere "nice" turn out to leave only memories. On the other hand her arc does bend upward and left me feeling glad that I searched this movie out.
I don't go out looking for movies as culturally vanilla as this as a rule, but it doesn't strike me that this movie goes out of its way to beat you over the head with the Bible. It's actually a pretty realistic movie about a period in the life of a woman who has a productive working life during the day and then tries to fill the void at night with alcohol and whatever she gets from the guys she picks up in the local bar. She hasn't had great relationship models in her life, apparently, and the movie catches her at a time when she is trying to, well, get better.
This setup could easily lead either to a tragic ending or a rom-com ending wrapped up with a Hallmark/GAC movie Christmas bow. SPOILER: it doesn't do either one. Some of the things that might be going somewhere "nice" turn out to leave only memories. On the other hand her arc does bend upward and left me feeling glad that I searched this movie out.