Anna is stuck: she’s approaching 30 and has just moved back to her rural home-town, and into a shed in her mother’s backyard. She spends her time working a menial job at a local boating center and hides in the depths of her imagination, making movies with her thumbs. Irritated by her childish behavior, Anna's mother insists that she move out of her shed and on with her life. When a troubled young boy starts hanging around, the two form an unlikely bond. Through their strange yet mutually beneficial friendship, Anna slowly begins to confront her perpetual state of arrested development.
Adult Life Skills is a 2016 British comedy film funded by Creative England, and the feature debut of writer-director Rachel Tunnard. The feature-length version of the BAFTA-nominated short Emotional Fusebox, it premiered at the London Film Festival in 2014. It tells the story of 29-year-old Anna who moves into her mum's shed and refuses to move out after the death of her twin brother.
