Overview
Before heading off to college, an overthinking teenager asks out a former girlfriend in an effort to reconnect and hold on to his past.
This should have been titled “One Summer Night In Real Time”. Full disclosure – I was only able to get through the first hour. While I am generally a fan of coming-of-age stories one of the things that often drives me crazy about them is that the kids don’t talk like kids. They use language that adults have and have confidence that only some adults have. In this movie, they talked like kids. There was one particularly painful sequence where they walked down the street (for what felt like an hour) making absolutely pointless small talk. Worse, they then had to re-examine a relationship that they had in junior high and all of the non-relationships since then. So they finally get ready to go somewhere else and they then have the same pointless conversation all over again. Is there a script editor in the house? I mean really – a coming-of-age movies should be 90 minutes. This one is two and a half hours! And the male lead either can’t act or was instructed to mumble his way through the movie. The female lead is actually very good despite the lines she is forced to say. It is kind of ironic that only hours after turning this movie off I watched the excellent movie Shithouse. Same age group yet one was worlds better in terms of dialog and plot. With everything going on while being on the edge of adulthood I can’t imagine why this film stayed in the shallow end.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews One Summer Night
Movie title: One Summer Night
Movie description: Before heading off to college, an overthinking teenager asks out a former girlfriend in an effort to reconnect and hold on to his past.
Date published: 2021-02-17
Director(s): Conner Keesling
Actor(s): Conner Keesling, Julia Dent
Genre: Drama, Romance
My Review
This should have been titled “One Summer Night In Real Time”. Full disclosure – I was only able to get through the first hour. While I am generally a fan of coming-of-age stories one of the things that often drives me crazy about them is that the kids don’t talk like kids. They use language that adults have and have confidence that only some adults have. In this movie, they talked like kids. There was one particularly painful sequence where they walked down the street (for what felt like an hour) making absolutely pointless small talk. Worse, they then had to re-examine a relationship that they had in junior high and all of the non-relationships since then. So they finally get ready to go somewhere else and they then have the same pointless conversation all over again. Is there a script editor in the house? I mean really – a coming-of-age movies should be 90 minutes. This one is two and a half hours! And the male lead either can’t act or was instructed to mumble his way through the movie. The female lead is actually very good despite the lines she is forced to say. It is kind of ironic that only hours after turning this movie off I watched the excellent movie Shithouse. Same age group yet one was worlds better in terms of dialog and plot. With everything going on while being on the edge of adulthood I can’t imagine why this film stayed in the shallow end.
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