Suncoast

Name: Suncoast
Genre: Drama
Released: February 2, 2024
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Amarr, Ariel Martin, Cree Kawa, Daniella Taylor, Ella Anderson

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Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: February 2, 2024 | R

Starring: Amarr, Ariel Martin, Cree Kawa, Daniella Taylor, Ella Anderson, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Laura Linney, Nico Parker, Pam Dougherty, Woody Harrelson

Summary: While caring for her brother along with her audacious mother, a teenager strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time. Inspired by a semi-autobiographical story.

Director: Laura Kenley

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 109 min

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Kyle Smith

Feb 7, 2024

Forswearing anything like a pedantic message and giving the audience plenty of reasons to be sympathetic to the viewpoints of all three characters, Ms. Chinn has created a heartbreakingly real coming-of-age story. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Jan 31, 2024

With the cinematography by Bruce Francis Cole capturing the mid-2000s Florida setting and the score from Este Haim and Christopher Stracey helping to set the right mood, “Suncoast” eschews heavy-handed messaging about whether one is really and truly alive when one cannot survive on their own in favor of a quietly moving, occasionally surprising and ultimately lovely and thought-provoking work. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Feb 9, 2024

In her director’s note, Chinn explains that while considerable liberties were taken with the details of her experience, “The emotions are real.” However dark the premise might be, that part of Suncoast shines through as bright as day. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jan 29, 2024

As “mixed bag” coming-of-age dramas go, Suncoast surprises with its heart and consistently punches above its emotional weight. Read full review

Lisa Kennedy

Jan 25, 2024

An amiable ensemble effort, with two sturdy lead performances, Suncoast is reminiscent of the minor-key, quirky-charming ’90s dramedies so often discovered by the Sundance Film Festival. This is a fine thing; there are deserved laughs and tears. It is also a slightly awkward thing. Read full review

David Rooney

Jan 23, 2024

There’s a core of authentically devastating family experience and personal investment that saves Suncoast from its unskilled handling, giving this grief drama, coming-of-age combo a heart to counter its predictability. Read full review

Jacob Oller

Feb 7, 2024

While there is a literal amount of truth running through the semi-autobiographical Suncoast, its glossy, uncertain cutesiness is as fake as Ron DeSantis’ height. Read full review

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