Chalet Girl (2011) 6/10

Starring : Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick, Tamsin Egerton, Ken Duken, Sophia Bush, Nicholas Braun, Bill Bailey, Brooke Shields, Bill Nighy
Director : Phil Trail
Running Time : 94 mins

Former champion skateboarder Kim Matthews (Jones) has been forced at the tender of age of nineteen to support her single father by taking whatever dead-end job she can, so when she is offered a well-paying four month catering job at an Austrian ski resort she jumps at the opportunity. Things start off shaky as she is judged for her working class background, but she soon finds a new joy when she discovers an uncanny ability at snowboarding and decides to enter a competition to make some much needed cash.

I suspected that this was going to be a typical British teen rom-com, and I wasn’t disappointed. Granted, this is clearly written for girls, and it made little sense that the two lead girls who dislike each other at first become firm friends so quickly, but if you like movie like Wild Child or Ice Princess, then this will be perfect for you.

You’ll like this if you liked : Wild Child