Violet McGraw is at the center of Tubi’s new summer comedy Summer’s Last Resort, and the first trailer puts her there from the opening frame. She plays Summer, a high-strung teenager whose birthday getaway takes an unexpected turn when her free-spirited mom’s new boyfriend joins the trip, a boyfriend who also happens to be her vice principal. Determined to stop the romance before it gets serious, Summer sets a secret breakup plan in motion, and it spirals into a vacation full of sunburns, sabotage, and surprising emotional twists.
The trailer opens on Summer relaxing poolside, earbuds in, reciting a series of daily affirmations. “I embrace all uncertainty,” she says confidently. The calm doesn’t last. Moments later, she accidentally drives through a crowded school commons during a driving lesson with Vice Principal Glenn Winters, played by Jerry O’Connell, narrowly missing the school mascot. “Life throws challenges,” Summer continues as the trailer flashes back to her at the pool. “I catch them gracefully.”
From there the setup falls into place. Summer’s mother, Milly, played by Sophia Bush, crosses paths with Glenn after the driving mishap, and what starts as an awkward confrontation turns into an unexpected romance. Before long, Milly invites Glenn to join the family on a Caribbean resort vacation, and Summer, convinced the relationship is doomed, secretly sets out to break the couple up. “She’s tequila,” Summer says while describing her mom to Glenn, standing alongside her younger brother, Grayson, played by Dawian Van Der Westhuizen. “Glenn is lukewarm chamomile. They don’t seem like a match at all.”
What follows is a wildly chaotic getaway, with inflatable bubble-ball battles, awkward matchmaking schemes, disastrous sabotage attempts, and even an emergency dolphin CPR situation. As Summer doubles down on her mission to save her mom from what she believes is another bad relationship, her efforts send the luxury vacation off the rails, from trying to set Milly up with another man to forcing Glenn down a terrifying water park slide. The trailer is packed with spit takes, accidental fires, surprise punches, and plenty of vacation disasters. “I’m trying this new thing called commitment,” Milly says at one point. “Gross,” Summer fires back. Later, Milly offers her own verdict on the trip: “This is the weirdest vacation I’ve ever been on.”
Directed by Melanie Scrofano and produced by the team behind Ginny & Georgia, Summer’s Last Resort mixes family comedy, vacation misadventures, and coming-of-age heart, with McGraw anchoring it all as Summer. The film premieres July 3 exclusively on Tubi.
