It's hard to believe this supremely silly 'tweenage fantasy — a fishy mix of WEIRD SCIENCE and SPLASH aimed squarely at undiscriminating young girls — is based on a book by novelist Alice Hoffman. As summer draws to a close in Baybridge, Fla., Claire (Emma Roberts), a timid orphan living with her grandparents (Roy Billing, Julia Blake) at their Tampa-area beach club, faces the dreary prospect of starting eighth grade without her best-friend-forever, Hailey (Joanna "JoJo" Levesque). Hailey's marine-biologist mom (Claudia Karvan) has finally gotten the research grant of her dreams, but it means once again uprooting her daughter and moving all the way to Austr...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG
Length:
98 mins