Synopsis
Twenty-something Brooklynites Allie and Harper are directionless, privileged, and just a tiny bit damaged. All they want is to get to the beach, where a drug-fueled afternoon with cute boys awaits them. Alas, the journey becomes needlessly complicated, as the girls’ bike ride from Williamsburg to Fort Tilden Beach is littered with a barrage of unfriendly circumstances and the realization that their life skills are more limited than they should be.
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Cast
- Bridey ElliottHarper
- Clare McNultyAllie
- Alysia ReinerCobble Hill Mom
- Neil CaseyEbb
- Peter VackBenji
- Griffin NewmanSam
- Jeffrey ScaperrottaRuss
- Reggie WattsReggie Watts
- John EarlyJohn
- Evan Hoyt ThompsonGrant
Recommendations
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The A.V. Club
For all its exquisite theater-of-cruelty viciousness, Fort Tilden is finally a work of empathy about people whose own supplies are running on empty. - 88
Slant Magazine
It elegantly evolves from an absurdist comedy into a remarkably wounded and uprooted story of friends who're beginning to tire of their shared social cocoons. - 75
The Playlist
What really sells both the fashionable remove and generational paralysis is the pairing of Elliott and McNulty, as they effortlessly establish a passive-aggressive relationship from the get-go that thrives in a constant state of reliably unreliable codependence. - 75
New York Post
They’re the ditziest, most solipsistic protagonists I’ve seen outside of a Neil LaBute project. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Fort Tilden, the debut feature co-written and directed by Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers, showcases a satirical voice so dyspeptic it’s almost endearing, never letting the abrasive lead characters – or anyone else for that matter – off the hook for their self-absorbed entitlement. - 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
The movie is broad and mean and for a while very funny, but even when it goes sour — when the world slaps them in the face for their sins — it doesn’t lose its momentum. - 70
Village Voice
Allie and Harper are basically unlikable, but played with a light touch and just enough distance from their own unthinking cruelty to remain funny. - 67
IndieWire
While frequently very funny and sustained by a pair of boldly unlikable female protagonists, Fort Tilden adopts the glorious stupidity of its stars, and echoes their gratingly obnoxious temperaments.
