Synopsis
Ben is a young bisexual man. He comes out to the world and develops an intense relationship with Sam, a man of color struggling with deep wounds of his own. As the summer progresses and their intimacy grows, Ben's past crawls to the surface.
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Cast
- Matthew FiferBen
- Sheldon D. BrownSam
- Sandra BauleoDebbie
- Jazmin Grace GrimaldiAmber
- Cobie SmuldersSophie
- Scott AdsitDr. Dragone
- Michael PottsFrancis
- David BurtkaBo
- Jo FirestoneTracy
- Jason GreeneTheresa
Recommendations
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Los Angeles Times
The absorbing romantic drama Cicada feels as real as it gets. - 80
CineVue
Told with tenderness and honesty, Cicada is a treatment of trauma that does not judge or preach or take sides, but, in building to its breathless crescendo, goes to show just how much courage it takes to confront the past in order to look to the future. - 80
The Irish Times
Though there are some clunking flaws... Cicada has the compact shape of an elegant short story – open-ended, yet not incomplete. - 50
Little White Lies
It struggles to find nuance in its storytelling approach. - 40
The New York Times
Ben and Sam’s blossoming romance does a lot of telling and little showing. While there’s the occasional amusingly idiosyncratic section of dialogue that sounds like a series of stagily poetic non-sequiturs, much of the couple’s bonding feels straightforward and unremarkable.
