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Ping Pong Summer
Directed by
Michael Tully
Not Rated
2014
1h 32m
Comedy
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Drama
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5.4
59%
32%
5.7
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A family vacation during the summer of 1985 changes everything for a teenage boy obsessed with ping pong.
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Cast of Ping Pong Summer
Marcello Conte
Rad Miracle
Helena May Seabrook
Michelle Miracle
John Hannah
Mr. Miracle
Lea Thompson
Mrs. Miracle
Emmi Shockley
Stacy Summers
Joseph McCaughtry
Lyle Ace
Andy Riddle
Dale Lyons
Judah Friedlander
Anthony
Susan Sarandon
Randi Jammer
Robert Longstreet
Uncle Jim
Amy Sedaris
Aunt Peggy
Maddie Howard
Rhonda
Quinn McColgan
Team Lyle
Robert Hambury
Old Neighbor
Michael Tully
Director / Writer
Billy Peterson
Producer
Jeffrey Allard
Producer
Brooke Bernard
Producer
Michael Gottwald
Producer
Lori Krein
Producer
Ping Pong Summer Ratings & Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
The stakes are low throughout the film - even the bullies are mostly bluster - making the big finish an anticlimax.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
While there are substantial shortcomings to the picture, it knows how to have a good time, playing with teen cinema conventions as it checks off its laundry list of references and sense memories.
Common Sense Media
Sandie Angulo Chen
Summer coming-of-age tale is high on nostalgia, low on plot.
Variety
Justin Chang
[Tully achieves] a winning innocence of spirit in which performances and production design are all perfectly synched to his low-key comic vision.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
It's so dedicated to the odd textures of its world that it becomes something else - personal, abstract, and strangely honest.
RogerEbert.com
Simon Abrams
While "Ping Pong Summer" does aggressively pander to viewers' nostalgia (dig that Nike track suit, and Run-D.M.C. cassette tape!), it's also warmer and funnier than its worst jokes.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
A ho-hum memory piece that could have used a bit more objectivity, not to mention depth and energy.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
This gentle comedy, while entirely unmemorable, releases a genuine warmth that deflects harsh judgment.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
"Ping Pong Summer" may not be an instant classic, but it knows its time and place. There's a humble honor in that.
Seattle Times
Soren Andersen
A friendly puppy of a movie. It's clumsy and bumbling but disarmingly sweet in spirit.
NPR
Tomas Hachard
A sometimes-intriguing experiment in upended expectations, though not a particularly successful one.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
This sweet, offhanded but lovingly observed remembrance is a real kick.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Michael Tully's mild tribute to the 1980s - the decade that just won't go away.
Village Voice
Katherine Vu
It plays like a cherished memory, rosy and warm, rebuilt in miniature with such affection and detail it's hard not to be moved by its sincerity.
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
A fun-but-slight coming-of-age story about an awkward Maryland teenager who becomes, well, not a man exactly, but a slightly more comfortable teenager, on a family vacation during the magical summer of 1985.
Slant Magazine
Glenn Heath Jr.
A heartfelt retro flashback littered with pop-culture iconography and much slang, it focuses on the importance of friendship and loyalty rather than social standing.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Tully seems filled with yearning for the happy side to the story and dwells fleetingly on his hero's struggles and humiliations; neither the problems nor their resolutions have any weight.
Paste Magazine
Tim Grierson
The problem with basing an entire movie on nostalgia is that while it may hit your target audience right in its sweet spot, for everyone else it may seem like little more than an extended version of "Guess you had to be there."
Film.com
Calum Marsh
Ninety minutes of vapid 80s fetishism packaged to resemble a proper feature film, a memory-baiting time-sink for twenty-somethings eager to mainline nostalgia at length.
The Hollywood Reporter
Justin Lowe
Rose-tinted as the film's perspective may be, Ping Pong Summer is still a lingering, entertaining glance back at an era that Americans just can't seem to get enough of, whether in music or movies.
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