Hot Summer Nights is our one repeat this year, it was last year's #1 and well worth it. To try and combine coming-of-age with neo-noir, set it in 1991 and do it in a beautifully styled way is no easy task. Elijah Bynum set his mark high and nailed it.
Alex Roe is outstanding here at the bad boy of the Cape Cod scene who develops a friendship with 15-yr old Daniel (Tim Chalamet) and they start selling weed and become big dealers. However, there's romantic subplots etc. The film also deserves high marks for editing and cinematography.
If that hasn't caught your attention, enter one William Fitchner in a mind-blowing cameo towards the end of the film as a coke dealer. This scene and it's curve-ball climax with trip you right out. As I said last year, one of the best cameos of the new century. Don't miss this one, thumbs way up. VOD, also on sale for $5 at Vudu & Amazon, comes to Plex for free starting tomorrow. 3.5 stars/5
