<P> On March 26, 2015, it was announced that Elijah Bynum would make his directorial debut with his own 2013 Black List script titled Hot Summer Nights, set in 1991 Cape Cod . Imperative Entertainment would finance and produce the film with its Bradley Thomas and Dan Friedkin . On June 24, 2015, Maika Monroe, Timothée Chalamet, and Alex Roe were added to the cast to play the lead roles . Later, Maia Mitchell, Emory Cohen and Thomas Jane were also added to the cast . Filming began in August 2015 . </P> <P> The film premiered at South by Southwest on March 13, 2017 . In September 2017, A24 and DirecTV Cinema acquired distribution rights to the film . It was released through DirecTV Cinema on June 28, 2018, before being released in a limited release on July 27, 2018 . </P> <P> On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Hot Summer Nights holds an approval rating of 44% based on 34 reviews, with an average score of 5.2 / 10 . The site's critical consensus reads, "Hot Summer Nights is easy on the eyes and clearly indebted to some great films, but its strengths--including a charismatic young cast--are often outweighed by its uninspired story ." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 44 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". </P> <P> Michael Hoffman, writing for Consequence of Sound, praised the film, calling it "A brazen anti-coming - of - age thriller that oozes with all the right confidence, chutzpah, and passion ." Conversely, Indiewire critic David Ehrlich criticized the script as "empty," and referred to the film as "A sweaty pastiche that shares its protagonist's desire to be all things to all people, only to wind up losing any sense of itself along the way ." </P>

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