American Summer (2018)
Directed by Jim Loach
this film also known as Measure of a Man is based on the novel “One
Fat Summer” and stars Blake Cooper alongside Donald Sutherland.
During the mid 1970s an overweight teenage boy spends the summer
being bullied.
There is plenty to
like about this film, at times the plot is really touching and
connects very well with teenage insecurity. Part of me always wanted
the plot to take a darker twist, it skirts round the edges of events
spiralling out of control but ends up with a positive ending that I
am not sure is very real. Well made if a little heavy handed at the
end, a decent watch over all.
4/5
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