There are moments of poignancy and humor. But once the two girls start hanging out together, "Banana Split" settles into its rhythm. The dialogue is presentational, and the jokey tone is a bit arch. "Banana Split"'s opening sequence is a little rough. Sometimes flashes of deep ambivalence cross her face, showing that Clara doesn't quite like the way things are going, that she may not be as easy-breezy as she seems. She doesn't know what she wants to do with her life. And Liberato plays a girl who presents as confident and open-but the truth is she's struggling to find her way, she's a little bit lost, even. She wears her mixed feelings on her sleeve. Marks is all wisecracks, but with an undercurrent of constant roiling emotion, rage and hurt and humor. Here, together, Marks and Liberato make such an interesting onscreen pair. In 2011, Liberato gave a tremendous performance in David Schwimmer's "Trust" playing a 14-year-old child lured into a "relationship" by a much-older online predator.
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But Marks and Liberato have made that transition with grace: they both work all the time, in television series (Marks in "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" and Liberato in "Sons of Anarchy" and "Light as a Feather").
Child actors often flame out, suffering from the "too much too soon" tradition in the industry. As children, both Marks and Liberato were profiled in a 2006 New York Times Magazine article about child actors (Liberato was featured on the cover). Marks was recently named by Rolling Stone as one of the "25 under 25 changing the world." A heady label, but Marks seems more than ready to take on all those challenges. Young women creating their own work, initiating projects, getting it done, not waiting around for someone in power to "give them" roles they deserve. Marks is just 27 years old, and this alone is hope for the future. Marks also served as executive producer for the film. The script was co-written by Hannah Marks and Joey Power (this is their second script, the first being 2018's " After Everything"). They sneak around, and Clara keeps seeing Nick, and April has many mixed feelings. It's like they are cheating on everyone with each other. Eventually, though, the girls become friends, and decide to continue their friendship without telling anyone-not Nick, not social media, no one. She is Clara (Liana Liberato), a coolly beautiful and confident blonde, and April glowers at her from across crowded parties, getting way too drunk, tears pooling up in her eyes. Meanwhile, April becomes obsessed with this new girl, who has dropped into their crowd from out of nowhere. Luke Spencer Roberts plays Ben, friend to both Nick and April, who finds himself stuck in the middle.
Tough as she may be, April is devastated by Nick abandoning her (and confused by him still texting her). April still thinks they're going out, until one day she notices something horrifying: Nick posting pictures on his Instagram of him making out with another girl.Īpril is a pretty tough cookie, and judging from her mother (a very funny Jessica Hecht), and her trash-talking younger sister ( Addison Riecke), the apples all fall from the same tree. Nick is going to school locally in California.
But when April gets into Boston University, all the way across the country from Los Angeles, things change. As the montage reveals in a quick succession of scenes, they're together for two years (basically a 40-year-marriage in high school years). "Banana Split" opens with a montage, a bold and not entirely successful choice, showing the falling-in-love, virginity-losing, and eventual old-married-couple-fighting of April (Marks) and her hottie boyfriend Nick ( Dylan Sprouse).
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