Beach Rats

Frankie, a teenage boy from Brooklyn, spend all his summer days hanging out with his friends and getting high on his sick father’s pain medication. While doing his best to escape from his bleak home situation he is also on the run from himself. He has a tentative relationship with Simone but is continuously drawn to chat rooms online where he meets and hook up with older men. Frankie is on the journey to manhood and must find balance in his life. Writer and director Eliza Hittman delivers a fresh and sensitive coming of age film about a young boy and his journey of sexual self-discovery while struggling with his life at home