Hot Summer Nights

Released Jul 27, 2018

1h 47m

Mystery & Thriller

Romance

Drama

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45%

Tomatometer

42 Reviews

59%

Audience Score

500+ Ratings

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

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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Nyle Coleman

InSession Film

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

Rated: B

May 9, 2024

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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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David H

I've watched over 100,000 films and if you were 17 in summer of 92', this film is spot on. Don't trust critics. This film is excellent and shows POV from every angle. By far my favorite coming of age film. Great story, great cast, great soundtrack. Critics cannot relate because they didn't live this. Great film!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/19/24

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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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Elijah Bynum

Director

Timothée Chalamet

Daniel

Alex Roe

Hunter

Maika Monroe

McKayla

Maia Mitchell

Amy

Emory Cohen

Dex

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