Hot Summer Nights

R

Released Jul 27, 2018

1 hr. 47 min.

Mystery & Thriller

Romance

Drama

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41 Reviews

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500+ Ratings

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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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Tayvin C

I just wanna know the truth……………..

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/03/24

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Trey W

Watched baby Chalamet. Meh.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

11/29/23

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Tamara K

While this is a fairly boring movie a young Timothee Chalamet and a great soundtrack make it worth the watch.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

09/13/23

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Jnos S

I don't understand why it's so underrated. Compared to the overrated Licorice Pizza, this is also a pretty good story.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

08/31/23

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Joe M

Under rated. Actually real good movie. Surprised I never heard about it. Great story. Great cast. Kinda sad. Overall, great movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/23/23

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Jeffrey P

Didn't plan on watching this but it came on and never made me want to turn it off. Better than expected and avoided getting too emotional or sentimental, which is what I was expecting it to do, so it did surprise in some regards.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/12/23

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Elijah Bynum

Director

Timothée Chalamet

Daniel

Alex Roe

Hunter

Maika Monroe

McKayla

Maia Mitchell

Amy

Emory Cohen

Dex

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Tomris Laffly

Time Out

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.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 8, 2018

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Kristen Lopez

Spectrum Culture

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.

Rated: 2/5

Jul 31, 2018

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Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

AV Club

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.

Rated: C

Jul 28, 2018

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Cory Woodroof

615 Film

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...

Feb 11, 2022

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Danielle Del Plato

Floated Alternative Culture Magazine

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.

Rated: 5/10

Dec 6, 2018

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Nate Adams

The Only Critic

In the end, Hot Summer Nights leaves the viewer with an an intoxicating aftertaste and a glow of enthusiasm long after the credits roll.

Rated: A-

Oct 11, 2018

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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
Executive Producer: Jasmine Daghighian, Nathan Kelly, Casey Wilder Mott
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

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