Hot Summer Nights

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Hot Summer Nights

R

2018

1h 47m

Mystery & Thriller

Romance

Drama

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An awkward teenager gets in over his head dealing drugs while falling for his business partner's enigmatic sister during one scorching summer in Cape Cod, Mass.

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Critics Consensus

Hot Summer Nights is easy on the eyes and clearly indebted to some great films, but its strengths -- including a charismatic young cast -- are often outweighed by its uninspired story.

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Tomris Laffly

Time Out

08/08/2018

2/5

While Bynum captures the year of Terminator 2: Judgment Day and its transitional early-'90s fashions with melancholic vividness, his paper-thin story of minimal character development ultimately resolves to a shrug.

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Kristen Lopez

Spectrum Culture

07/31/2018

2/5

Hot Summer Nights will appease fans of Chalamet by his presence alone, but this is a movie that plays like a CW-infused take on the nostalgic drug drama.

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Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

AV Club

07/28/2018

C

Hot Summer Nights is both groan-inducingly contrived and vapid, its talented young cast wasted on an incoherent script-less a web of betrayal, greed, and adolescent desire than a few dangling threads.

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Nyle Coleman

InSession Film

05/09/2024

B

For everything Bynum gets wrong in the final act, he makes up for in fun and inventive storytelling in the first half.

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Cory Woodroof

615 Film

02/11/2022

The Timothee Chalamet Experience rolls through town with A24's moody 90s teen drama Hot Summer Nights, or, Kewl Largo, where Goodfellas meets The Sandlot...

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Danielle Del Plato

Floated Alternative Culture Magazine

12/06/2018

5/10

A twenty-second long sequence of a sticky and moist exchange of a lollipop is one of the most immersive sequences I have seen in some time.

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B M.

@RT90464900 Jun 26

It was okay. Nothing memorable. Little character depth

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Annastasia T

@RT36725824 Jun 23

Will be a cult classic. Just wait

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S. O

@Col._Angus Jun 17

It's a fun ride back in time. Good performances and an interesting story, with a great soundtrack. If you like a little teen Summer rollercoaster ride with a bit of Scarface thrown in, you'll probably like this

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@Kezla Jun 17

It's strange, it has the making and feel of a coming-of-age, but clearly it didn't resonate with many. The ending is the epitome of bittersweet. I feel like the cast besides Timothee Chalamet and Maia Mitchell were miscast. Despite that, I'd say it's worth a watch.

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Miranda J.

@Mjohns23 Jun 13

Pretty boring movie.

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Sheri T

@RT43841630 Jun 13

Good movie not sure why it got such low ratings

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Synopsis

An awkward teenager gets in over his head dealing drugs while falling for his business partner's enigmatic sister during one scorching summer in Cape Cod, Mass.

Director: Elijah Bynum
Producer: Dan Friedkin, Ryan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas
Screenwriter: Elijah Bynum
Distributor: A24
Production Co: Imperative Entertainment
Rating: R (Sexual References|Language Throughout|Drug Content|Some Strong Violence)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Romance, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 27, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 24, 2018
Runtime: 1h 47m

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