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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790756820
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 079075682X
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 05, 2002
Running Time: 104 minutes
Sales Rank: 7494
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 09, 1971
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This enduring classic of teenager gary grimes falling under the spell of older woman jennifer oneill whose husband is away at war. Special features: subtitles in english french spanish portuguese japanese chinese thai and korean: cast/director film highlights: first-time widescreen video release and more. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/26/2006 Starring: Gary Grimes Jennifer Oneill Run time: 104 minutes Rating: Pg
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Herman Raucher's autobiographical (or first person, anyway) coming-of-age tale is set, as the title suggests, among sand dunes and departing GIs. Hermie (Gary Grimes) and his two buddies Oscar (Jerry Hauser) and the nerdy Benjie (Oliver Conant) are spending the summer doing the things preadolescents do: hanging out, eating ice cream, stealing "dirty" books from their parents, and trying unsuccessfully to act manly around the gawky girls they take to the movies. Then Hermie spoils everything by really falling in love, this time with the adorable older woman Dorothy, played by Jennifer O'Neill. Dorothy's husband conveniently leaves for duty overseas, and then, even more conveniently, becomes one of those "we regret" telegrams. Dorothy, desperate for comfort and sweetness, turns to Hermie--and surely makes his summer. The setting and the date give this movie a double helping of nostalgia for anyone who was once an adolescent boy desperately trying to get rid of both his callowness and his virginity. But the slow pace and dreamy atmosphere, courtesy of Robert Mulligan's direction and Michael Legrand's famous score, may give it less appeal to anyone who is still in that situation. --Richard Farr
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Occasionally some person or some event lifts our spirits high above the normal plane of existence and we experience a beauty and a joy that we never knew existed and yet, once experienced, leaves us somehow changed forever. The Summer of '42 had that effect upon me.
I wonder if all of our various experiences of love, beauty, truth etc. are but pale emanations from our Creator who sometimes allures us, not with greatness, but with an overwhelming humility, painful gentleness and sheer ... Read More
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Really great movie, we always see movies of girls coming of age or having positive life changing moments, This really is a great one for and about boys.
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Based on the biographical novel by Herman Raucher, the film is able to capture the time and feelings of a teenage boy dealing with new feelings as he discovers that he has a powerful attraction toward a young woman who is seven years his senior. Perhaps one of the things that makes this such a compelling story is the writer's brutal honesty about his thoughts and feelings. The author himself captures this very idea with his words that are used in the opening part of the film:
"Nothing ... Read More
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Excellent 'coming of age' movie. Very emotional The 'older' woman is on a different plain from the boy, yet fate brings them together for just a single moment in time, satisfying both their needs.
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To borrow a line from the movie itself: In everyone's life, there is a "Summer of '42". The movies captures the feelings and emotions of the young man and the lady and presents them with a touch of details. The conversations are natural yet precise. The music is beautiful.
Today's Hollywood could borrow a chapter from the fine movies from the 70s and 60s, like this one. There is no big budget, tons of special effects, violence needed here. It is simple, yet it is powerful and captivating.
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