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Beach Rats (15)

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Harris Dickinson in Beach Rats

Eliza Hittman's visually stunning and evocative Sundance hit is a powerful character study of a young man struggling with his family's expectations and his own identity.

On the outskirts of Brooklyn, Frankie (Harris Dickinson), an aimless teenager, is trapped by the oppressive glare cast by his family. He escapes his bleak home life by causing trouble with his delinquent friends and flirting with older men online. When his chatting and webcam pursuits intensify, he finally starts hooking up with guys at a nearby cruising beach. At the same time he begins a cautious relationship with a young woman. As Frankie struggles to reconcile his competing desires, his decisions leave him hurtling toward irreparable consequences.

 

'Hittman shares something of Claire Denis's gift for finding vulnerability in a chiselled male body and a kind of bruised poetry in the tough-guy swagger of these teenage kids.' The Guardian

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US 2017 Dir Eliza Hittman 98 min

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Barbican Cinemas

Location
Barbican Cinema 1 is located within the main Barbican building on Level -2. Head to Level G and walk towards the Lakeside Terrace where you’ll find stairs and lifts to take you down to the venue floor.   

Address
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS

Public transport
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