Snack Shack
Snack Shack
If one would say in which genre ‘Dinner in America’ can be classified without feeling any qualms, it was punk. True, Snack Shack does touch on some adolescent revolt but it is a more subdued tale. Based on some elements of Rehmeier’s own childhood, Snack Shack takes place in the summer in Nebraska City in 1991.
This follows two close buddies which are AJ (Conor Sherry) and Moose (Gabriel LaBelle) who are over the summer spending their time in charge of the snack shop in the local swimming pool. The pair continue to navigate through the summer, until they have to fight new hurdles such as the new girl Brooke (Mica Abdalla). While the two teenagers try to navigate the landmines of growing up, they fight to keep both their friendship and hardware business afloat.
Diabetes no much way out Smoke rings or rose – through thick glass-eating distortions with particular dourness either way it goes down the aisle clothed with disk. And as the promotion materials of the film Snack Shack tries to put it, where will you get the movies about sex there, just like in Superbad – this is a new age.
However, the comedy is present abundantly, Snack Shack is more a film of a coming of age of a teenager in the 90s. Watching Snack Shack invokes the same feeling as when it’s time to watch My Girl or Now And Then, or even Stand By Me for that matter. To summarize, this is a film that successfully evokes a lost childhood, a long-forgotten childhood, and does it all very beautifully.
The fact that Rehmeier managed to shoot some sequences in his home town, also places him in that same geographical region where he had some narrative beats in, helps add on to those emotional nostalgia. These moments on screen do ring true and guarantee that the audience immerses themselves in the narrative.
It isn’t just the narrative that the viewer has to be on the same page with however, but the assessment of each character as well. In AJ and Moose, there are echoes of Dinner in America’s Patty and Simon, for the fans of that movie, these will be a pleasant feature. The couple are not clones, but only possess certain spiritual qualities.
For instance, circle back to Patty, AJ is also the more sensitive and quiet personality of the duo while sexy hot-headed woman Moose is rather carefree and loud like Simon. Rather than being Patty and Simon 2.0, AJ and Moose effectively encapsulate the male friend pairings that broke out in fiction in the early 90s.
They have bit of all greats; Beavis and Butthead, Wayne and Garth, Bill and Ted, all scrambled together. These characteristics of male bonding that have largely been absent for sometime now and it is nice to see them being revived.
Every aspect of Snack Shack makes one think of endless summers and youth. Although there is an ‘old’ feel to Rehmeier’s film, it is an old feel that does not alienate the younger viewers. Teenagers are a world over a common menace. It is something that will always be encountered, and regardless of the time period, the subjects that are discussed in it will always leave someone craving for more.
Through his writings as well, Rehmeier is able to go a step further and relate to the audience by making sure that his character’s decades’ appropriate dialogs reflect their ages. LaBelle and Sherry work these words seamlessly. In the beginning of Snack Shack for example.
AJ and Moose are strolling down the street where Moose is speaking too fast for anyone more than the little people’s capability. It sells the two actors as authentic and helps them pass as tennagers even though both are in their twenties.
As older brother Shane, Nick Robinson, is also admired by both boys and is well supported. Even though Shane is a background and supporting character, he has an interesting arch of story that hearkens to the fun and silliness of Snack Shack into something more serious, sweet and sad.
What stands out the most in Snack Shack is the character of Shane which is essential in making this piece of art not some mindless teenage comedy and it is this emotion that gets attached to the events associated with Shane that will make this movie last through time just like My Girl and Stand By Me.
Then there is Mika Abdalla as the girl who threatens to break-up the brotherhood. Rehmeier has actually devoted the effort to provide her a character who would put her out of just being a mere sex symbol. She is clever, tough, and undoubtedly more than just bone-headed beauty which is something a lot of teenage movies do not manage to convey.
As for book lovers, nothing is lost in this work, Rehmeier salted the Snack Shack with smaller nods. Some of them are more conspicuous than the particular shots showing the sycer (not all such shots are closer to the object emphasizing them since all similar shots are closer to the objects), but all serve to bring the two texts together very tightly at the cellular level.
Within purview of modern cinematic universes, it is safe to assume that both Snack Shack and Dinner in America are highly streamable as they are center pieces in a somewhat cross over story. Dinner in America’s DNA becomes particularly felt at the very start when the dinner scenes are being shot. These scenes are shot in such North, South, East, West manner as it is in Dinner in America.
The film includes a small winking of Adler’s reference to his previous films, but one that will not offend those who missed Rehmeier’s last movie. Then there is the character dynamic, the geographic aspect of the suburban setting, and there is even a further close connection that eagle eyed fans are certain to be on the lookout for.
Given the comparisons made to Dinner in America, Rehmeier has somehow captured such a diverse reality once more that hits viewers right in their feelings. What starts as a silly adolescent comedy brings a change Borden in the light of street and depressed pregnancy childcare depression.
Snack Shack very properly captures the evocative and deliciously perplexing stage of youth where summer never ends and a sprinkling of a few doses of perfectly timed comic relief takes the audience to their teenage childhood days next to the Pavilion.
It has been said time travel has not been invented yet, but thanks to the Snack Shack’s propensity to send the viewers back to their childhood, the writer Adam Rehmeier has come very close.
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- Genre: Comedy
- Country: United States
- Director: Adam Rehmeier
- Cast: Conor Sherry, Gabriel LaBelle, Mika Abdalla
