‘Snack Shack’ Review: Gabriel LaBelle and Conor Sherry Play Teenage Hustlers in a By-the-Book Coming-of-Age Tale
variety.comJ. Kim Murphy Can you remember how you spent your childhood summers? Were they by the pool eating concession stand junk? Biking everywhere you went?
Fist-fighting your best friend? Falling for a girl from out of town? Something along those lines? Or maybe you just saw a movie like that.
That kind of easy familiarity is what teen comedy “Snack Shack” comfortably sets up shop on. Armed with a talented cast, writer-director Adam Rehmeier’s 1991-set feature happily squares itself in a tradition of teenage hedonism and broad learning opportunities, settling into a generic but warm glow.
Early-20s actors Conor Sherry and Gabriel LaBelle lead the film, stretching the laws of verisimilitude playing 14-year-old best friends, but emerging plausibly teenaged with their lame-brain rapport.
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