Beach Rats

2017
6.6
Beach Rats
Poster Beach Rats

Title: Beach Rats

Original Title: Beach Rats

Year: 2017

Info

Release Dates

  • UK: November 24 2017
  • United States: August 25 2017

Plot

Frankie (Harris Dickinson) is a 19 years old boy from Brooklyn who lives with her mother (Kate Hodge) and his little sister. Under the pressure of being the man of the house as his father is ill at the hospital, his mother wanting him to have a girlfriend and he finds himself in an existencial crisis where he doesn't know what does he want or who he is. He spends his miserable summer abusing of drugs, commiting crimes and webchatting with local man older than him. When the webchat sessions become more intense, he decides to meet him and have sex in the beach meanwhile he starts a relationship with Simone (Madeline Weinstein). This hard drama with LGTB characters won the award for best direction at Sundance Film Festival.

Cast

Director:

Eliza Hittman Eliza Hittman

Videos

Official trailer 'Beach Rats' 1:58

Photos

Beach Rats
Beach Rats
Beach Rats
Beach Rats
Beach Rats
Beach Rats
Beach Rats
Beach Rats

Trivia

Second film

'Beach Rats' is Eliza Hittman's second film. She debuted a few years earlier with 'It felt like love'.

Too in shape

Harris Dickinson the actor who plays Frankie in the film was actually too fit to play the role before filming began. "I got there and, without sounding arrogant, director Eliza Hittman told me that I was a bit too in shape".

Recommended movies and tv shows Beach Rats

Follow Us