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Summer Storm (2006)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:15
Rotten:15
Average Rating:5.7/10
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for sexuality, language and drug content
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Mar 17, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Tobi and Achim have been best friends for years. As cox and oarsman, they have helped their team win several rowing cups in the past and are now looking forward to the big regatta in the... Tobi and Achim have been best friends for years. As cox and oarsman, they have helped their team win several rowing cups in the past and are now looking forward to the big regatta in the countryside. But this trip is no summer camp anymore and the first problems soon arise. As Achim’s relationship with his girlfriend grows more serious, Tobi starts to realize that his feelings for Achim run deeper than he’s willing to admit to himself. He feels confused, unsure of himself and increasingly left out. When the much-anticipated Berlin girls’ team is replaced by a team of athletic, cliché-busting young gay men, Tobi and his teammates are suddenly forced to grapple with their prejudices, their fears, and, perhaps, their hidden longings. As the tension grows, Tobi, Achim and the others head towards a confrontation as fierce and ultimately as liberating as the summer storm gathering over the lake… Summer Storm highlights the emotional confusion of a young man at the threshold of adulthood. Bolstering the film’s authenticity is the dazzling characterization of Tobi by award-winning young Robert Stadlober ( Best Leading Actor at the Montreal Film Festival, 2001). © Regent Releasing [More]
Starring: Robert Stadlober, Kostja Ullmann, Alicja Bachleda-Curus, Jürgen Tonkel
Starring: Robert Stadlober, Kostja Ullmann, Alicja Bachleda-Curus, Jürgen Tonkel, Tristano Casanova, Miriam Morgenstern, Marlon Kittel, Hanno Koffler
Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner
Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner
Studio: Regent Releasing
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Reviews for Summer Storm
Don't let the trailer mislead you. Summer Storm is not some sort of supersexy European art film. It's kids being kids, and you've outgrown summer camp.
Kreuzpaintner junks up this simple gay coming-of-age story with too many subplots and sitcomlike situations.
There are at least a couple of disparate movies fighting for control in Summer Storm.
Its coming-of-age yarn goes nowhere beyond inevitably out of a closet.
Humor, toned bods, a mellow soundtrack and far too much predictability are the highlights and lowlight of Summer Storm.
This gay coming-of-age film from Germany ultimately has few original aspects, but it is an intelligently wrought drama that makes it a respectable entry in the genre.
Stadlober, a young Austrian actor cast in the leading role, is charming enough to survive most of the movie's labored attempts to lighten up.
Recommended for its endearing performances, captivating locations and a poppy soundtrack that amiably underscores the bubbly sensuality of a summer in the sun.
While it has little in it that hasn't been covered by other coming-out movies, it's pleasant enough.
Kreutzpainter limns his multifarious characters with an amiable, unforced humor and an authentic feel for the ways in which good kids respond to peer pressure with less-than-admirable behavior.
Equal parts earnest and endearing, Bavarian director Marco Kreuzpaintner's gay romance tackles its adolescent heartaches with unusual compassion.
The slo-mo opening, accompanied by sappy music, tells you everything you need to know about Summer Storm, an uninspired gay coming-of-age import from Germany.
'Coming out' films are now rituals, patterned like dances, and Marco Kreuzpaintner's Summer Storm hits its generic marks.
Summer Storm is another of those soft-core, simple-minded stories about a geeky young gay man (Robert Stadlober as Tobi) struggling with his sexuality over the course of a long, hot, sexed-up summer.
For a small coming-of-age film, this picture is remarkably well photographed and acted. But the single-mindedness with which it seems determined to have almost everyone rowing in the same sexual direction finally becomes a bit oppressive.
Summer Storm is a contemporary teen summer romance with a modern sexual twist -- though in many ways, it's just the same old malarkey.
A lovely wallow in the sweaty pains and joys of mostly gay adolescent love.
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