Hot Summer Nights
During the summer of 1991 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Daniel follows a bad friend who leads him to do bad things and take drugs. But this may not last long when Daniel finds a girl he loves and starts to chase her.
June1990, Westminster, London, England, UK
26 March 1957, Hartsville, South Carolina, USA
18 August 1993, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
November 21, 2017
[Elijah Bynum] solicits strong performances from his young cast - especially Timothée Chalamet as the teenage fish out of water - and blends humor and increasingly dark sensibility to good effect.
March 15, 2017
Like a teen New England Goodfellas. That's not to discredit Bynum's own style. He wouldn't earn the Goodfellas comparison unless the style was self-assured and expressing character, and it is.
June 27, 2018
Bynum swerves this story into gangster territory without an exit strategy. It's as if he felt the movie was always one ingredient shy of having a distinct taste of its own, and kept adding things to the mix until he ran out of time.
March 15, 2017
Visually atmospheric but tonally all over the place, Hot Summer Nights, a first feature by Elijah Bynum, has much to appreciate but ultimately possesses the sampler-platter vibe of a director's demo reel.
March 15, 2017
Hot Summer Nights is a sneaky slice of dark Americana, a gorgeously shot, hard truth coming-of-age tale rendered through a lens of innocence and grandeur, a sexy 20th century fairy tale.
March 20, 2017
Elijah Bynum's directorial debut, Hot Summer Nights, is a brazen anti-coming-of-age thriller that oozes with all the right confidence, chutzpah, and passion.
