In a dramatic atmosphere, the movie follows two friends in Cape Cod during their summer. They are doing bad works together. After one of them, Daniel, falls in love with the other's sister, the problems start to occur.
18 August 1993, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
22 February 1969, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
26 March 1957, Hartsville, South Carolina, USA
21 November 1968, Parma, Ohio, USA
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 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.
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
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.
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.
