The Snack Shack

The Snack Shack

Nebraska City, 1991, two best friends get the chance to run the swimming pool snack shack, that later comes to be the perfect scenario for transgression, fun, personal discovery and romance.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 112 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Stars: Mika Abdalla, Gabriel LaBelle, Christian James, Dawson Mullen, David Costabile, Dominick Marrone, Sidi Henderson, Michael Bonini, Steve Berg, J.D. Evermore, Conor Sherry, April Clark, Nick Robinson, Gillian Vigman, Christian J. Velez, Kate Robertson Pryor
  • Director: Adam Rehmeier
 Comments
  • chand-suhas - 5 June 2024
    A routine coming of age tale.
    AJ and Moose are best friends and are a package deal when it comes to making some quick money. This is disapproved by AJ's parents. Defying them the duo bid on snack shack at the city council auction and win. Meanwhile, Brooke enters their lives and she is visiting for a brief period, awaiting her military father's reassignment. AJ and Moose are tormented by a couple of soft bullies but they have Shane to have their back. As expected, Brooke comes in between the best friends, affecting them as she starts to go out with Moose despite being interested in AJ. How does the boys get through the summer forms rest of the story.

    To list what I liked was definitely the performances. Connor Sherry as AJ and Gabriel Labelle as Moose instantly impress with their bromance. Nick Robinson chips in with a good performance too and Mika Abdalla leaves a mark too. The film held my attention till the boys won the auction and started their snack shack successfully earning $1650 on their first day. It is after this the film started focusing on the love triangle and even after a scene between AJ and Brooke, it still continues to revolve around AJ's feelings about her leading to the jealousy among best friends.

    What really disappointed me was the third act and how annoying generic it became. A personal loss bringing the bigger change is an accepted routine but it is not all that impactful if the writing is deliberate. By the third act, the film gets stagnant with it's drama and even until then, it wasn't backed by hilarious comedy which eventually impacts the all too serious final act. If the writing had to let go off these generic tropes, the film could have worked a lot better. I would still recommend this for the performances.
  • allonsytoutdesuit - 17 April 2024
    Just can't get into it
    I can't get into this movie. I had to quit a little bit more than halfway through. It's so terribly boring and one of the biggest things that is annoying me about this movie is that I just can't lose myself in it because the actors are in their 20s playing 14 year olds. They don't look 14 years old, they don't walk and talk like 14 year olds, and they don't do things that 14 year olds do, or did in 1991. There's just nothing about them that is believable even a little bit. As for the story itself well, there really isn't much of one. There's nothing compelling unique or original about this movie. Nothing to grab your attention and certainly nothing to keep it. Hard pass.
  • McMurphy1262 - 6 April 2024
    Kids, this is what a "Movie" is
    No "box-checking," no propaganda, no agenda, and no studio execs poisoning the vision.

    Just writer (AND director) putting his blood and guts into telling a good, entertaining, and impactful story.

    Also, no hand-holding or dumbing down.

    Nothing is forced, and the dialogue actually sounds like the characters (as opposed to every character sounding like their 20 yr old, silver-spoon, nepo-baby writer that has no life experience, like so many "films" now).

    The actors take it to the next level, and it really amplifies the experience.

    And very true to the time. Gonna hit extra hard for the 90's gen.

    A rare gem.