
Summer of '42
In everyone's life there's a "Summer of '42"
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Release Date
4/19/1971Runtime
103 minsOverview
Over the summer of 1942 on Nantucket Island, three friends -- Hermie, Oscy and Benjie -- are more concerned with getting laid than anything else. Hermie falls in love with the married Dorothy, whose husband is an army pilot recently sent to the battlefront of World War II.
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EnglishBudget
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A nostalgic, sun-soaked memory piece about adolescent desire and the transformative power of an unlikely romance. It captures both the comic fumbling and genuine tenderness of first love in the shadow of wartime absence.
Mood
BittersweetWistfulRomanticPlayful
Themes
Coming of ageLoveObsessionMemory
Tone
Tender
Pacing
Meditative
Look
NaturalisticPainterly
Structure
Linear
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