Movies like Snack Shack

“Snack Shack (2024) is a 2020s American coming-of-age comedy-drama that stages a small-scale social conflict at a suburban pool. The film dramatizes a friendship strained by entrepreneurial impulse and a disruptive new presence using naturalistic cinematography, sun-drenched palette and steady pacing to keep the tone intimate. The film argues that minor ambitions can have outsized emotional costs and that those costs matter to how young people learn responsibility.”