Summer of '42

Summer of '42

In everyone's life there's a "Summer of '42"

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Release Date

4/19/1971

Runtime

103 mins

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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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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