IMDb 8.5 2016 HD

You’re Not Thinking Straight

You’re Not Thinking Straight

2016
84 min NR USA
4 / 10
8.5 IMDB

Strewn on the blood, alcohol and urine soaked tiles of a dingy public bathroom, a young man reflects on the sex worker who stole his heart in a…

Personnel // Cast & Crew

Director Luke Sullivan
Starring
Jean-Pierre Yerma / George Ronsin / Sage Godrei / Robin Queree / Caspar Hardaker

How Viewers Describe This Film

Common themes and sentiments

raw unique unsettling intense surreal lonely visceral challenging dark dreamlike intimate bold

Reviews

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Penelope Croft
Apr 17, 2026
3.0 / 5
3.0

'You're Not Thinking Straight' presents a bold, if somewhat challenging, vision of young love and loneliness. The film's unique structure, built around a series of surreal and unsettling flashbacks, chronicles a young man's fixation on a sex worker.…

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Oliver Finch
Apr 17, 2026
4.5 / 5
4.5

A fiercely original and undeniably impactful film, 'You're Not Thinking Straight' is a triumph of raw emotional storytelling. It bravely tackles the themes of youth, isolation, and the desperate search for connection through a narrative steeped in surreal,…

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Isabelle Dubois
Apr 17, 2026
3.0 / 5
3.0

Emerging from a grimy public bathroom, 'You're Not Thinking Straight' offers a starkly individualistic take on adolescent longing. The narrative unfolds through a series of hallucinatory flashbacks, painting a portrait of a young man consumed by a sex…

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Marcus Bellweather
Apr 17, 2026
4.0 / 5
4.0

This is not your average coming-of-age story. 'You're Not Thinking Straight' is a potent, unflinching descent into the chaotic landscape of young love and crippling loneliness. The film masterfully employs surreal and nightmarish flashbacks to convey the protagonist's…

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Eleanor Vance
Apr 17, 2026
3.5 / 5
3.5

'You're Not Thinking Straight' plunges viewers into a disorienting, yet compelling, examination of youthful infatuation. The film's central premise, a young man's obsessive fixation on a sex worker, is realised through a series of jarring, dreamlike flashbacks. While…

FAQs

While the film explores the clamouring for love, its setting and descriptive tone – 'blood, alcohol and urine soaked tiles', 'surreal and nightmarish flashbacks', 'broken world' – suggest a perspective that is far from conventionally hopeful. It seems to present a raw, perhaps even bleak, exploration of youthful desire and loneliness rather than a straightforwardly optimistic portrayal.