{"id":31579,"date":"2019-07-12T17:52:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T21:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=31579"},"modified":"2019-07-12T17:52:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T21:52:33","slug":"summer-night-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/12\/summer-night-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Night (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In the nineties once the indie scene broke out and directors like Steven Soderbergh and Richard Linklater perfected the chatty character piece with young adults, every director came out of the wood work with their own. Some titles like \u201cClerks\u201d and \u201cBeautiful Girls\u201d became classics while stuff like \u201cMixed Signals\u201d and \u201cLet It Snow\u201d fell to the wayside– for very good reason. \u201cSummer Night\u201d feels like a screenplay taken from 1995 that was retrofitted for a modern audience. And that\u2019s not entirely a compliment.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s the last days of summer. Best friends Seth and Jameson are getting ready to perform\u2014and party\u2014at local rock venue The Alamo. But before the night begins, both young men comes face- to-face with serious reality checks as Seth receives life-changing news from his girlfriend Mel (Analeigh Tipton). Jameson has to choose between his on-again-off-again girlfriend Corin (Elena Kampouris) and a new girl he\u2019s just met, the outspoken Harmony. At the show, Seth and Jameson\u2019s friends are too caught up in their own lives to be much help, all facing crossroads in their lives including new opportunities, and new romances.<\/p>\n

\u201cSummer Night\u201d feels a lot like one of those mediocre character pieces we might have seen in 1998 in response to \u201cDazed and Confused.\u201d The fact that Ellar Coltrane from \u201cBoyhood\u201d is in the film seems like no coincidence, either. I\u2019m not saying the writers ripped off Linklater, but you can sense they took a ton of inspiration from him as his influence is all over this film. Right down to the mid-way club scene where we watch the characters interact during music performances. You can almost sense that maybe if director Joseph Cross had the rights to more recognizable music, he\u2019d have been booming late seventies pop tunes all over the place.<\/p>\n

\u201cSummer Night\u201d isn\u2019t a bad movie by any stretch it just doesn\u2019t have anything remarkable or new to offer. It\u2019s your standard episodic drama comedy with a bunch of thirty somethings discussing life, their regrets, and trying to figure out what they want to do once summer is over. Beyond that there isn\u2019t a ton of tension or emotional awakening, despite the weight of a lot of what unfolds. Everything just kind of sputters out and the whole message of growing up gets lost in the endless dialogue and numerous sub-plots. \u201cSummer Night\u201d has a very good cast and a great setting, it just doesn\u2019t re-invent the formula at all as middling, merely serviceable indie fare.<\/p>\n

At least there\u2019s Victoria Justice. Seriously, I\u2019d pay money to watch her read the phone book for three hours.<\/p>\n

Now in Limited Release and on VOD.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the nineties once the indie scene broke out and directors like Steven Soderbergh and Richard Linklater perfected the chatty character piece with young adults, every director came out of the wood work with their own. Some titles like \u201cClerks\u201d and \u201cBeautiful Girls\u201d became classics while stuff like \u201cMixed Signals\u201d and \u201cLet It Snow\u201d fell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[111,219,302,874],"class_list":["post-31579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-arthouse","tag-comedy","tag-drama","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31581,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31579\/revisions\/31581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}