Hot Summer Nights
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Synopsis
The one thing an introverted teenager who’s just lost his father needs is to be sent away to live with his aunt on the Cape for a scorching hot summer. Right? Even the shy teen, Daniel (Timothée Chalamet) admits the situation is a total cliché. But the rest of this stylized, romantic thriller set in 1991 is anything but. Daniel eventually connects with some locals, in particular a bad boy weed dealer named Hunter Strawberry (Alex Roe). When they combine Hunter’s experience and Daniel’s smarts, they find some serious success. And alongside that success, romance - Hunter has a summer fling with the daughter (Maia Mitchell) of a cop (Thomas Jane), while Daniel falls in love with Hunter’s little sister, McKayla (Maika Monroe). All seems perfect… until… well, we won’t spoil it here. But with an impending hurricane both real and metaphorical in the third act, you know the stakes are gonna’ be high.
Cast
- Maika Monroe
- Timothée Chalamet
- Jack Kesy
- Thomas Jane
- William Fichtner
- Maia Mitchell
- Alex Roe
- Emory Cohen
- Lia McHugh
- Catherine Dyer
Atom User Reviews
some funny moments, and tense moments. a good film. Timothee Chalamet was a stand out.
Metacritic
For all of this ersatz panache, the plot of 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.
As it cliff dives, unprompted, into reheated cocaine-nightmare territory done better by any number of 1990s ’70s nostalgia films before it, it not only ceases to be fun, but stops pretending it has any vision for where its lead characters should go.
Bynum shoots it all in high pop-pastiche style, with a near-constant barrage of neon freeze frames, slow-pan party shots, and romantic montages set to an eclectic, decade-spanning soundtrack (Tarzan Boy, David Bowie, Roxette, Suicide).