Hot Summer Nights (2017)

Directed by

Elijah Bynum

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h

Rated

NR

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 816 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In the summer of 1991 on Cape Cod, a teenage boy gets pulled into selling drugs. He starts navigating a dangerous new world of crime while also falling for a local girl.

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What happens

Hot Summer Nights is a 2017 American neo-noir coming-of-age crime drama film written and directed by Elijah Bynum, in his directorial debut. It stars Timothée Chalamet, Maika Monroe, Alex Roe, Maia Mitchell, William Fichtner, Thomas Jane, and Emory Cohen. Set on Cape Cod in the summer of 1991, the plot follows Daniel Middleton, a teenage boy who becomes entangled in the drug trade. The film premiered at South by Southwest on March 13, 2017. It was released on June 28, 2018, through DirecTV Cinema, before beginning a theatrical limited release on July 27, 2018, by A24. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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