The Kings of Summer

2013 "Why live when you can rule."
7.1| 1h33m| R| en| More Info
Released: 31 May 2013 Released
Producted By: Big Beach
Country: United States of America
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Joe Toy, on the verge of adolescence, finds himself increasingly frustrated by his single father, Frank's attempts to manage his life. Declaring his freedom once and for all, he escapes to a clearing in the woods with his best friend, Patrick, and a strange kid named Biaggio. He announces that they are going to build a house there, free from responsibility and parents. Once their makeshift abode is finished, the three young men find themselves masters of their own destiny, alone in the woods.

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Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.
Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
ObservedGuide I have no idea what this movie is. All I know is I enjoyed it. It was pretty refreshing to watch. Normally, I would only give a movie of this caliber a 7 or 8, but once you see the mustache the main character grows you'll understand why it was 10 worthy. The whole time he was in the woods I was wondering if it was just dirt on his face. That's how good the mustache was. I'm jealous my facial hair growth is slightly better than that because I would love to have that pedo-stache on my face. Also, Moises Arias is a gem and a half. 90% of his lines make no sense, but I was digging the humor in it. This will go down as a movie that no one else enjoys. If I meet a girl who likes it, I'll probably marry that girl.
Kirpianuscus just a film. about teenagers. about summer. about adventure, friendship, courage, self definition, life, nature, death, need of the other, love in its significant forms. a film like a open window in spring morning. useful for memories. and for the acting of few young actors. interesting for its flavor about an unique period of life. and for humor, tension, sadness, innocence, games and emotions. it is not easy for define it. or criticize it. because it seems be only a game. the rules, the aspects of its evolutions seems predictable. nothing new. only the feelings who transforms it in a personal trip. a film about be yourself. and discover you against all the appearances or the other's expectations. that is all !
isaac-edwards I could easily write a review that is exactly what you expect to read about a film about 3 teenagers who run away from their (faintly embarrassing, but not actually all that oppressive, by any means) parents. It has the ultra-American high school party with the red cups. It has the douchey older boyfriend of the protagonist's love interest. It has the utter implausibility of the 3 teenagers being able to build a fully free standing, architecturally acceptable house in the middle of the woods, with engineering skills that didn't stand up to the challenge of building a bird box earlier in the film.But it tries really hard. Nick Offerman's downtrodden, wonton-weary father is hilarious, Moises Arias' Biaggio is creepy, lovable and hysterical in equal measure, and the soft-focus cinematography is often really beautiful.The main problem though, apart from the host of American-coming-of- age genre clichés, is that the inexplicably follically proficient protagonist, Joe (Nick Robinson) is simply not likable in the slightest. I would be surprised to see any viewer relate to him as he threatens his entirely more pleasant best friend Patrick with violence for the heinous act of falling for Kelly (Erin Moriarty), who failed to display any interest in Joe in the entire film.Somehow it still retains a charm, despite this. The direction and soundtrack, while occasionally jarring, are often really satisfying, and Offerman and Arias keep you laughing for long stretches of the film.Go and watch the trailer. It's really good. And best of all, it contains nearly all the good bits, so if you're short on time, there's no need to watch the actual movie.
BittanyG The film is dreamy, nicely shot and with good young actors. I'm sure we'll see more of the three boys in the future. But this is a film by boys, about boyscout fantasies, for boys. A princess thrown in there for them to fantasize about but obviously with no content other than being just the pretty object of the boyscouts' dreams. So tired of this. But this is what gets funding from men as usual. All the f-ing time. The Hucklberry Finn dream the funders, director, producer etcetera have about what they wish they would have dared to do when they were young. I guess it's pretty good but myself I'm soooo longing for the film, just one please, by and about young women coming of age and not please just centred about dreaming about boys. Im sure the script is out there, unfunded by the men sitting on the money. So no this is not a teen movie or a coming of age movie. It's a boys movie. And yes pretty good but had enough of them. Btw the Belagio(?) boy too weird and didn't really fit in to the rest of the story, could've been tuned down a bit. Good acting though. Liked the father role and the one playing him.