Synopsis
In the long days of summer in a beach town on the New Jersey shore, high schooler Alan and his friends Red and Smitty break into vacation homes to steal valuables, funding dates at the boardwalk and lunches at the burger stand. When Alan and his younger brother Peter find a bag of gold coins, they try to hide them from the others — but Red, suspicious and violently unpredictable, seems willing to do anything to get the money.
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Cast
- Jaeden MartellPeter
- Keean JohnsonAlan
- Shea WhighamSergeant Kent
- Alex NeustaedterRed
- Daniel ZolghadriSmitty
- Kristine FrosethMary
- Mike HodgeDon
- Michael David BaldwinOfficer Pete
- Nicholas BaraschPolo Shirt
- Danny BoleroJavier
Recommendations
- 75
The A.V. Club
Low Tide is mostly a genre exercise. But it’s a disciplined, rigorously entertaining one. - 75
Slant Magazine
Kevin McMullin displays a piercing awareness of the tensions that drive the dynamics of adolescent outsiders. - 75
RogerEbert.com
This is an old-fashioned hybrid of a thriller and a coming-of-age narrative that explodes when a fortune gets dropped into it. Think of it as an adolescent “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” with echoes of '80s adventure classics like "The Goonies" and "Stand by Me." - 70
Los Angeles Times
Despite the inherent familiarity, the quietly observed Low Tide, graced by a mournful, undulating score by composers Brooke Blair and Will Blair, nevertheless packs a genuine depth. - 67
IndieWire
If Low Tide recedes all too fast, it still leaves behind a clear sense that life doesn’t always happen on schedule, and that the hardest part of growing up is figuring out what to share with people along the way. - 63
Movie Nation
The cast is uniformly fine, with Neustaedter (of TV’s “The Colony”) throwing an evil Heath Ledger vibe and young Zolghadri born to play a prison “snitch.” - 60
TheWrap
McMullin’s feel for the setting greatly enhances the story, as does evocative camerawork from Andrew Ellmaker, making his own impressive feature debut. But McMullin’s inexperience as both a writer and director does sometimes hold him back. - 58
The Film Stage
Low Tide isn’t groundbreaking or unique, but it knows its setting and characters enough to make the journey authentic despite its lack of surprises.
