The read
Audiences rate it 20 points higher than critics do. Most of the 7,033 2010s drama movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
In 1991, a sheltered teenager comes of age during a wild summer on Cape Cod, getting rich from selling pot to gangsters, falling in love for the first time, partying, and eventually realizing that he's in way over his head.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes46%
Metacritic44/100
Audiences rate it 20 points higher than critics do.
836 audience votes
Key crew
- Elijah BynumWriter
- Elijah BynumDirector
- Will BatesOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Timothée ChalametDaniel Middleton
- Maika MonroeMcKayla Strawberry
- Alex RoeHunter Strawberry
- Maia MitchellAmy Calhoun
- Thomas JaneSergeant Calhoun
- Emory CohenDex
- William FichtnerShep
- Jack KesyPonytail
- Thomas Blake, Jr.Taylor
- Kimberly BattistaVice Principle Finney
- Christian JamesFootball Player
- Catherine DyerWife at Beach House
Stills
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Themes
drug dealersummer residencemassachusettscoming of agemarijuanadrug dealingsummercape codsummer romance1990sillicit tradeteenager