How to deal

Halley’s senior year arrives like an uninvited houseguest, shattering the fragile truce of her teen life. Between her mother’s divorce and her best friend’s sudden nuptial obsession, she confronts romance as both alien concept and unavoidable inevitability. The arrival of Macon, all sharp edges and sideways glances, leaves everyone slightly less certain who’s supposed to be teaching whom.

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Clare Kilner directed How to deal in 2003. See Clare Kilner's full filmography, where to start with Clare Kilner, or where to go after you've seen everything by Clare Kilner.

How to deal was released in 2003 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 99 minutes.