Age of Summer (2018)

Age of Summer: Directed by Bill Kiely. With J.D., Peter Stormare, Brian Van Holt, Diarmaid Murtagh. A determined teenage boy struggles to find acceptance within the Jr. Lifeguards of Hermosa Beach while juggling relationships and challenges in the summer of 1986.

“There must have been favors owed or nepotism in the casting. The kid who played the lead looked like a holocaust survivor. He was hard to look at, people cast in films are generally good looking, thatu0026#39;s how you attract people to the theater. The rest of the cast isnu0026#39;t much better.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI grew up in California in the mid-80s. It was absolutely nothing like its portrayed in this movie. People were mean and aggressive, especially the beach/surfer culture. Drugs were everywhere. This kid would have been chewed up. The way the kids act in this film, you can tell they are Millennials with sensitivity training.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis is the sort of movie that plays in the middle of the night on Cinemax, thatu0026#39;s the legacy.”