Summer of '42
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Actor: Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Katherine Allentuck, Lou Frizzell, Oliver ConantBrand: Warner Brothers
Primary Contributor: Gary Grimes
Primary Contributor: Jennifer O'Neill
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown; French (Original Language), Unknown; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-02-05
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Summer of '42
Movie Review: mystically beautiful
Summary: 5 Stars
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 beauty?
While the subject matter of Summer of '42 could hardly be described as being of high moral character, it nevertheless sounded a note in me whose very existence I was previously unaware.
Perhaps it was the beauty of Jennifer O'Neill; perhaps it was the stirring words of the narrator ..... for no person I've ever known etc;........ maybe it was the introspective music of Michel Legrand, but whenever I watch certain scenes from this romantic classic I simply cannot remain within myself. I am transported to a more beautiful place and a more beautiful time. Every time!
Summary of Summer of '42
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: PgHerman 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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