This movie is not your normal first teen summer love story - it is an interesting lesson in real life consequences. Set in mid 90's small town America featuring 16 year old Conrad (Tye Sheridan) who is bridling under the stifling rules of his worried widowed mother (father recently killed in combat) and doing a typical mid adolescent push for more freedom. On 4 July he sneaks out his bedroom window to spend the day with the family of a girl called Grace (Kaitlin Dever). Conrad likes Grace but is torn between her and his two friends Hunter and Tim who tease him in front of Grace. Next evening the boys roam the neighborhood doing typical pranks including taking a pot plant from the porch of Grace's family. In this instance, her 19 year old brother Eric gives chase with a disastrous accidental collision with a deer. Eric is injured but alive but Hunter persuades Tim (over Conrad's objections) to run away and not report the accident and Eric dies of his injuries.

This now adds a layer of new intensity to Conrad's relationship with Grace - her grieving and family tension propels her into Conrad's arms and his guilt and deteriorating relationship with his mother and friends propels him towards Grace. Mix in hormones and the two move inexorably towards a sexual relationship that culminates in a night together at Grace's when her parents leave town. After sleeping together (a scene handled in a very PG way), Grace leaves for church and Conrad showers in the parents shower as they return home early to find underwear and an empty condom wrapper on the floor and their daughter's boyfriend in their shower - needless to say Conrad has to beat a hasty retreat.

By now he is wracked with guilt as to what happened and meets Grace at their favorite secret hangout place and tearfully confesses as to what happened with predictable consequences. Tye Sheridan is a remarkably genuine actor who, in several teen roles, has brilliantly captured all the complexities of the various quite difficult movie plots he has been cast in. It will be interesting to see if he can transition to proper adult roles now he is in his 20's and not just teen roles. Ditto Kaitlin Dever, she was very convincing in this movie. The story is told as a flashback by the adult Conrad musing on the consequences of his adolescent folly as he watches his early teen own son venture out to meet a girl. It is good message that there were negative consequences from foolish choices.

6/10 - decent teen romance, but nothing truly special

I love Pablo Screiber the older (Conrad) I wish he was in it a bit more although his other roles are amazing! Anyway though All Summers End is a wonderful story about a prank gone awry and (Conrad) falls in love Kaitlin Denvers character Grace which is heartwarmingly well done. Austin Abrams (Hunter) is a frustrating character to the story that I guess you could say is the villain of the film.