Director: Adam Rehmeier
A pool-side snack counter becomes the unlikely stage for one last teenage summer in Snack Shack, Adam Rehmeier's 2024 comedy set in Nebraska City in 1991.
What is Snack Shack about?
Best friends AJ and Moose talk their way into running the local swimming pool's food stand, figuring a summer of hustling burgers and sodas beats any part-time job in town. What starts as a scheme for easy cash turns into something bigger once the two boys start chasing bigger bets, bigger risks, and the same girl, Brooke, a lifeguard who throws their friendship off balance. Card games with grown men, backyard boxing dares, and a business that keeps growing faster than either of them can manage all crowd into one restless season. Rehmeier leans into a specific, sun-bleached slice of small-town Midwestern life, letting the humor come from proximity and boredom rather than big set pieces. Underneath the jokes sits a familiar but well-observed story about the last stretch of adolescence, when loyalty gets tested by ambition and attraction for the first time.
Cast & crew
Conor Sherry and Gabriel LaBelle carry the film's central friendship with an easy, lived-in chemistry, while Mika Abdalla gives Brooke enough independence that she never reads as a simple prize between the two leads. Nick Robinson and David Costabile round out the adult world the boys are trying to outgrow.
Context & significance
Set against a specifically 1991 backdrop, the film uses period detail sparingly, favoring mood over nostalgia signposting. It premiered on the festival circuit before finding a wider streaming audience drawn to its coming-of-age comedy pedigree, part of a run of similarly small, character-driven summer films from the same era of American independent cinema.
Where & how to watch
Snack Shack is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login, with a Farsi-language interface and both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles for viewers who prefer either option.