Beach Rats is a Cinereach original production, and received support from Sundance Institute.
Beach Rats
— BY Eliza Hittman
status
Completed
type
Fiction
year
2017
director
Eliza Hittman
producers
Brad Becker-Parton, Andrew Goldman, Drew Houpt, Paul Mezey
Synopsis
On the outskirts of Brooklyn, Frankie, an aimless teenager, suffocates under the oppressive glare cast by his family and a toxic group of delinquent friends. Struggling with his own identity, Frankie begins to scour hookup sites for older men. When his chatting and webcamming intensify, he begins meeting men at a nearby cruising beach while simultaneously entering into a cautious relationship with a young woman. As Frankie struggles to reconcile his competing desires, his decisions leave him hurtling toward irreparable consequences. Eliza Hittman’s award-winning Sundance hit is a powerful character study that is as visually stunning as it is evocative.