Variety
This is achingly delicate psychological territory, heavily dependent on just the right actor to make flesh its scripted subtleties - and Hittman has found him in Dickinson...
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Beach Rats
A Brooklyn teenager leads a perilous double life in this in this study of conflicted masculinity that garnered a Sundance Directing Award.
"Frankie, an aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn, is having a miserable summer. With his father dying and his mother wanting him to find a girlfriend, Frankie escapes the bleakness of his home life by causing trouble with his delinquent friends and flirting with older men online. When his chatting and webcamming intensify, he finally starts hooking up with guys at a nearby cruising beach while simultaneously entering into a cautious relationship with a young woman. As Frankie struggles to reconcile his competing desires, his decisions leave him hurtling toward irreparable consequences." (Sundance Film Festival)
Winner of the Directing Award (Dramatic), 2017 Sundance Film Festival
2017Rating: R18, Drug use, sex scenes & offensive language95 minsUSA
Drama
- Director:
- Eliza Hittman ('It Felt Like Love')
- Writer:
- Eliza Hittman
- Cast:
- Harris DickinsonMadeline WeinsteinKate HodgeNeal HuffFrank HakajDavid IvanovAnton SelyaninovNicole Flyus
Beach Rats / Reviews
The New Yorker
"Beach Rats," a boldly irreconcilable drama, shows a character locating ugliness and horror within himself.
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