The lives of a pair of teen besties yield a soapy little slice of life in “Very Good Girls,” a drama that feels like an old person’s idea of what young people are like.
Elizabeth Olsen and Dakota Fanning are the friends who are determined to lose their virginity before college.
One hooks up with a sort of indie version of Fabio (Boyd Holbrook) — a boringly idealized hunk whom both girls lust after — while crises spring from complications involving their parents (Richard Dreyfuss and Demi Moore in one case, Ellen Barkin and Clark Gregg in the other).
Sixty-eight-year-old writer-director Naomi Foner (best known as the mom of Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal) never manages to string events into much of a plot: The film comes across as a random, too self-serious collection of teen summer memories that lacks the glow of hindsight’s wisdom.