Summer of '42
Director:
Robert Mulligan
Actors:
Dorothy
Hermie
Oscy
Benjie
Aggie
Miriam
Druggist
Narrator
Dorothy's Husband
Hermie's Mother
Writer:
written by
Related movies:
Featured in: The Shining (Wendy and Danny watch it on TV) , On the Sunny Side of the Screen (Clips are shown. One of Roger Ebert's recommendations for a summertime movie on video.) , Indie Sex: Teens (A clip is shown)
Followed by: Class of '44
Featured in: The Shining (Wendy and Danny watch it on TV) , On the Sunny Side of the Screen (Clips are shown. One of Roger Ebert's recommendations for a summertime movie on video.) , Indie Sex: Teens (A clip is shown)
Followed by: Class of '44
Plots:
A teenager spending his summer vacation on Nantucket Island develops an innocent love for a young war bride who's awaiting news about her husband's fate.
Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's main worries are the when and how of getting laid, Hermie honestly falls in love with the older Dorothy, who's married to an army pilot. When her husband returns to the front, Hermie shyly approaches her.
Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's main worries are the when and how of getting laid, Hermie honestly falls in love with the older Dorothy, who's married to an army pilot. When her husband returns to the front, Hermie shyly approaches her.