Story
Summer in Coney Island. Teenager Frankie is a drifter: during the day, he hangs with his friends on the beach, smoking weed. But neither his macho buddies nor Simone, with whom he begins an affair, seem to really interest him. The only place where Frankie can speak about his sexual desires is a chat room where he spends his nights corresponding with older men. When he starts meeting people he knows from the Net, his friends are in danger of finding out his secret and Frankie has to take a radical decision. Beach Rats is an intense, explosive portrait of a young generation. The film won the prize for Best Direction at Sundance.
Director
ELIZA HITTMAN comes from Brooklyn and her debut feature It Felt Like Love premiered at Sundance in 2013. Beach Rats is her second film.Trailer
Info
Beach Rats
Fiction Feature
English
Transatlantik//FF2017
USA
2017
95 min
OV with German subtitles
Eliza Hittman
Eliza Hittman
Harris Dickinson, Madeline Weinstein, Kate Hodge
Drew Houpt, Brad Becker-Parton, Paul Mezey, Andrew Goldman
Hélène Louvart
Scott Cummings, Joe Murphy
Nicholas Leon
Grace Yun
Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH
Mongrel Media, Inc.
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