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Joe Toy is a teenager living with his single father, Frank, after his mother's death. Frank's efforts to manage his life grate on Joe, and a game night leads Joe to call the police over a Monopoly loss, then leave for a party. He has a crush on his friend Kelly, who has a boyfriend, Paul. After getting lost in the woods with a strange kid named Biaggio, Joe finds a hidden clearing and decides to build a house there with his best friend Patrick, who is also unhappy at home. Patrick studies survivalist books, and the boys sketch plans and gather materials from construction sites. One night the three of them sneak away from home and move into the house they have been building, while their town begins to wonder what happened to them.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Kings of Summer (2013)
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- The screenplay, written by Chris Galletta and originally titled Toy's House, made the 2009 edition of The Black List, an annual survey of the most popular unfilmed scripts among studio and production executives.
- The film was a pair of debuts: it was director Jordan Vogt-Roberts' first feature film and Chris Galletta's first produced script.
