- Four friends head to Senior Week in Ocean City, Maryland, to celebrate high school graduation.
- When four high school buddies hit the beach for a last summertime fling before they go their separate ways, bogus guidance from a booze-buying pal and their own half-baked schemes put the brakes on their dreams of unlimited beer and uncensored babes. But as their hormone-driven plans unravel, they discover what it means to have and be true friends.
The Graduates is a surprisingly touching, hysterical and smart revival of the classic coming-of-age comedy.
Ben convinces his older brother to drive his best friends to the beach in Ocean City, Maryland for one last hurrah before they all leave for college in the fall. Josh, almost 30, agrees in hopes of scoring some young high school tail while "between jobs."
Ben chases his high school crush all over town, while his rag-tag friends get in fights, strike out, torment the town and break most municipal laws for kids under 21.
Just as Ben is about to bed Annie, her meat-head ex boyfriend Jesse Swomley shows up in Ocean City, looking for Annie and Ready to fight anyone who stands in his way.
The Graduates is part satire, part coming-of-age comedy, and part autobiography of the writer/director Ryan Gielen. Featuring a ton of young talent, the film and soundtrack are a hysterical and touching trip down memory lane for anyone who remembers those final summer days of youth, those fleeting moments between youth and adulthood, when we're lost and searching and yearning.
Four stars.
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