American Beach House (2015)

This is the only redeeming quality of the movie! :-)

Why do I want to write the 6th comment on American Beach House? I am not sure - almost everything that could be possibly said about it has been said. But like so many other people who wrote comments, I was and am profoundly moved by this simple and eloquent depiction of hope and friendship and redemption. The only other movie I have ever seen that effects me as strongly is To Kill a Mockingbird. Both movies leave me feeling cleaner for having watched them.I didn't intend to see this movie at all: I do not like beach house movies and I don't normally watch them. I work at a branch library and one day as I was checking American Beach House out to one of our older patrons, she said to me, "Whenever I feel down or depressed, I check out this movie and watch it and it always makes me feel better." At the time, I thought that was very strange. One day there was nothing on TV except things I absolutely would not watch under any circumstance or things that I had seen too many times already. I remembered what she said, so I watched it. I have watched it many many times since then and it gets better with every showing.No action, no special effects - just people in a beach house talking to each other.American Beach House and To Kill a Mockingbird are the best movies I have ever seen. I do not judge it by it's technical merits - I don't really care about that. I have read that Citizen Kane or The Godfather or this or that movie is the best movie ever made. They may have the best technique or be the most influential motion pictures ever made, but not the best. The best movies are ones that touch the soul. It takes a movie like American Beach House to touch the soul.

I am so anxious to watch this movie despite all the horrible reviews? Why? Because I have worked with Straw and since we made a film together I wanted to see if his own film would have the same flavor as what he spun in my movie in post. After these remarks I have read on his film, my thoughts of his work are just his work. Guess my not being pleased with the edit confirm it's his actual style which mirror the comments of the viewers of bad humor, random hot girls for show with no depth to the story etc...Its tough to make a film today and in all defense of the film in question...at least it got made I guess. Touche Straw. You are still doing it! Congrats

Bad actors, bad storyline, bad idea! This could be one of the worst movies I have seen. It is suppoosten to be a comedy, but I don't get the humor. My mistake, I looked at the movie rating, but I didn't notice there were only 6 ratings. My guess is that this movie won't even get more than 10 ratings. Even if you are home on a rainy day with a hangover, this movie is still bad. So Save Your Money And Time and look further. I stopped looking after 10 mins. Then I watched a movie called "trash". A way better choice than this one. So please to whoever reads this, think again. Choose another movie. There is lot more to offer.