We’ve seen the film about the awkward teenage girl that meets the rebellious girl that changes her life a million times before. But in “To The Stars,” the formula is mixed up a bit by transporting this coming-of-age tale to the early 1960s, where we find two young women trying to figure out how to grow up in Oklahoma in an age where females aren’t supposed to rebel.

The film stars Kara Hayward, Liana Liberato, Shea Whigham, Tony Hale, Malin Akerman, and Jordana Spiro.

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The bible belt of early 1960s rural Oklahoma wasn’t a great time and place in America for outsiders. And this god-fearing country is certainly no place for two girls that may be slowly falling in love and calling too much public attention to all the time they’re spending together. Director Martha Stephens (co-director of 2014 Sundance film “Land Ho!” with Aaron Katz) adapts Shannon Bradley-Colleary‘s screenplay on intolerance and class-warfare in pre-sexual revolution America into an artfully visual feast, but one that unfortunately plods along at an uneven pace into heavy-handedness as the drama intensifies.

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Review: Martha Stephens And Aaron Katz's 'Land Ho! Is Easy To Admire, Yet Restrained

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Sundance Review: Aaron Katz & Martha Stephens’ ‘Land Ho!’ Is A Charming Minor Work

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Exclusive: New Pics From Sundance Comedy 'Land Ho!'; Directors Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz Talk Influences & Iceland

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