If one needed a reminder that “different” is not synonymous with “good,” an ample reminder arrives in the form of writer-director Jeremy O’Keefe’s Somewhere Slow, a very self-consciously serious independent production about an emotionally fragile thirtysomething woman (Jessalyn Gilsig) acting out a life crisis by opportunistically plunging into a road trip with a dodgy, wayward Mormon teenager (Graham Patrick Martin).

Somewhere Slow actually shares a decent bit in common with another cracked road trip of emotional awakening that centers around an older woman and younger male — Natural Selection, in which Racheal Harris plays a character who discovers her coma-stricken husband long ago fathered a son (Matt O’Leary) she never knew or met. But O’Keefe’s script is a precious bundle of mannered eccentricities, and a frustrating non-starter. Its characters don’t circle one another; they fall into a make-nice rapport too easily. That puts viewers on a slow train to Posed Self-Actualization, with too many stops along the way. For the full, original review, from ShockYa, click here. (Screen Media Films/Logolite Entertainment, unrated, 96 minutes)