Beach Rats
Beach Rats
R | 25 August 2017 (USA)
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On the outskirts of Brooklyn, Frankie, an aimless teenager, suffocates under the oppressive glare cast by his family and a toxic group of delinquent friends. Struggling with his own identity, Frankie begins to scour hookup sites for older men.

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cayala78

As other user reviews have pointed out, this story went nowhere. Gay films constantly focus on how hard it is coming to terms with your sexuality. The only difference here is that the character doesn't come to terms with his sexuality. He doesn't come to terms with anything. So why bother watch this film? Complete waste of time.

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arywicaksana

The third act could be more revealing, the actors are not quite believable, and Jackie's struggle could be a lot more highlighted. But I love how the story is told in subtle and not in spoon-feeding ways.

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firebird7478-223-619790

This is a nice film if you like staring at a naked Brad Renfro lookalike for 98 minutes, but this LGBT film had nothing more. As a writer (with an award winning LGBT screenplay to my credit) it frustrates me when I see characters that are just there with no purpose, or plot twists that go nowhere.We see one of Frankie's friends, as an example, not take part in the swimming at the beach. He sits and watches. When they mug the gay man for his weed, he walks away and doesn't participate. Why? Is he gay and has feelings for Frankie? The gay man they're mugging?What happens to the gay man they mugged? Anyone get arrested? Frankie's mom sits at his computer. She asks later if he wants to discuss anything. Does she know and is coaxing him into coming out? Too many questions unanswered. It's as if they ran out of money and had to stop production at this point.So much confusion. I'm even more confused how this film won at Sundance and the producers who optioned my script, about a gay professional baseball player, couldn't even get funding.

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imstepan

This movie is literally the definition of homophobia. i dont know if this was supposed to be satire or something but its literally this closeted str8 acting masc4masc white twink who ends up killing another twink because his friends wanted weed.........there is virtually no plot and its filled with pointless scenes that try to be artistic but fail miserably.there is no character development. the sister of the twink gets a belly button piercing and thats probably the most exciting part of the movie.if ur going into this thinking its gonna be a romance, think again because its not and it only perpetuates the stereotype that gay love = hookups from grindr. also there are no POC in this movie so that's that..really boring waste of time, sorry not sorry. (also if ur gonna make a movie that revolves around hookups, just show the dick. its not like u were gonna win an oscar for this anyway)

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