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Ping Pong Summer

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In 1985 a summer vacation in Ocean City, Md., changes the life of a shy white teen (Marcello Conte) who's obsessed with table tennis and hip-hop music.
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Critics Consensus

This Summer remembrance is brimming with nostalgic flourishes and easygoing charm, but is as stubbornly weightless as a Ping Pong ball.

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Peter Hartlaub San Francisco Chronicle 06/19/2014
2/4
The stakes are low throughout the film - even the bullies are mostly bluster - making the big finish an anticlimax. Go to Full Review
Justin Chang Variety 06/06/2014
[Tully achieves] a winning innocence of spirit in which performances and production design are all perfectly synched to his low-key comic vision. Go to Full Review
Bilge Ebiri New York Magazine/Vulture 06/06/2014
It's so dedicated to the odd textures of its world that it becomes something else - personal, abstract, and strangely honest. Go to Full Review
Ryan Syrek The Reader (Omaha, NE) 08/06/2019
A-
There's no deeper meaning to be had here. Just a good time, plenty of laughs, tons of nostalgia for the 1980s and the birth of Radical Miracle, who is everything Napoleon Dynamite wishes he was. Go to Full Review
Alex Heeney Seventh Row 08/15/2017
In "Ping Pong Summer", director Michael Tully has managed to distill everything awful about eighties movies - the fashion, cheesy dialogue, political incorrectness and afternoon-special endings - minus the heart. Go to Full Review
Kelly Maxwell Bust Magazine 10/05/2016
t all sounds like pretty familiar coming-of-age film fodder, but Ping Pong Summer reinvigorates the genre. Go to Full Review
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08/01/2021 The tone and style was there but the jokes weren’t . Fell flat . Watchable and easy tho 2.4 See more 10/26/2019 Pretty cool flick bringing back some good memories. See more 12/22/2018 Cute little movie that stuck true to its era! See more 11/26/2018 Here's my time-travel tip for fixing this movie. The family should be modern and Rad should be a typical kid who is addicted to technology. Then when they arrive in this town, it's stuck in the 80's. No cell service makes him ditch the technology and lost luggage leads him to wear clothes found in a dresser. Then this modern kid experiences all the clichés of an 80's summer movie. Without that kind of twist, it's just all the clichés of a summer movie for no reason. Plus it still bothers me that he likes ping pong so much that he travels with his own paddle, but he is so bad at it that he can't score one point against the bully in the first match? I watched this movie because I have Amy Sedaris set to auto-record and she rules. I want to be friends with Amy Sedaris. That's what this is really all about. See more 01/16/2018 How Susan Sarandon and Leah Thompson got roped into this debacle is quite the mystery. The best description of this endeavour is table tennis meets the Karate Kid in an east coast resort town during a 1980's summer vacation. A plethora of dilettante actors struggle to deliver on the razor thin script. How this film surpassed it's VHS lifespan is another mystery. In the end even the ping pong scenes are a letdown. So many unsolved mysteries yet so few reasons to watch this homage to 80's summer films. See more 06/04/2017 the nostalgic experience is universal with this one (well for those of us that spent childhood in the burbs and summers at OC). It has a sort of lighthearted magic and laugh out loud hilarity at times. I thoroughly enjoyed this film. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis In 1985 a summer vacation in Ocean City, Md., changes the life of a shy white teen (Marcello Conte) who's obsessed with table tennis and hip-hop music.
Director
Michael Tully
Producer
Jeffrey Allard, Brooke Bernard, Michael Gottwald, Lori Krein
Screenwriter
Michael Tully
Production Co
Epic Match Media, Nomadic Independence Pictures
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 6, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 19, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$31.9K
Runtime
1h 32m
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