It can be hard keeping up with all the films that premiere at Sundance, but one of the hottest films there (which I didn’t even know about to be honest, was Jordan Vogt-Roberts’s coming of age story, The Kings of Summer (formerly Toy’s House). The film is about three teenage guys (Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, Moises Aries) who run away to the woods to build their own house, like a serious house minus plumbing, running water and electricity.
In the teaser, which is most definitely a teaser, all we see are the three guys having a pretty entertaining pow-wow of sorts (something I’d probably do) while a bunch of quotes praising the film are cut into the mix, but the one that stands out is the Superbad meets Stand By Me quote. If this movie is really a mash of those two then there are going to be a lot of people who will want to see this film and it makes perfect sense why one of the larger distributors who have significant theatrical contacts picked this one up.
What you wouldn’t know from watching the teaser is that the film also stars Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Alison Brie and Mary Lynn Rajskub in the adult roles, and apparently they are scene stealers on occasion due to their comedic abilities. It seems like this is going to be a very well rounded film and I’
We’ll all be able to catch The Kings of Summer when it hits theaters on May 31, 2013
Premiering to rave reviews at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, THE KINGS OF SUMMER is a unique coming-of-age comedy about three teenage friends — Joe (Nick Robinson), Patrick (Gabriel Basso) and the eccentric and unpredictable Biaggio (Moises Arias) – who, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the land. Free from their parents’ rules, their idyllic summer quickly becomes a test of friendship as each boy learns to appreciate the fact that family – whether it is the one you’re born into or the one you create — is something you can’t run away from.
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