Princess Cyd (2017) on Netflix
Cyd Loughlin, a sixteen-year-old soccer player, leaves South Carolina for a summer in Chicago with Miranda Ruth, an aunt she barely knows. She is drawn to Katie, a barista.
- Netflix2.9/5
- IMDb6.7/104,809 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes95%
Trailer
Plot summary
Cyd Loughlin is headstrong and plays soccer for her high school in Columbia, South Carolina. She is eager to get away from life with her father, and she takes up an aunt's offer of a few weeks in Chicago. Her aunt, Miranda Ruth, writes religious fiction. The two are awkward together at first, then grow easier over meals, walks and days in the sun. Cyd explores her sexuality over the summer, drawn to Katie, a neighborhood barista, and to Ridley, a boy from the area. Miranda and her colleague Anthony have feelings for one another, and neither will make the first move. Cyd privately suggests that each of them ask the other out.
Cast
- Marika Mashburnas 911 Operator
- Paul Brian Fagenas Soccer Coach
- Dane Loperenaas Josh
- Mitchell Fainas Coffee Shop Manager
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Princess Cyd (2017)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Special permission was granted by James Baldwin's estate for Stephen Cone's Princess Cyd to use excerpts from Baldwin's work during the film's dinner party scene.
- Stephen Cone first set Princess Cyd in his childhood home of South Carolina, as with his 2011 film The Wise Kids, but moved the story to Chicago after a walk down Sunnyside Avenue shifted it in his head.
- The character of Katie in Princess Cyd was written without any gender in mind; whether Katie would be male, female or non-binary was not decided until casting.
