Summer of '42

1971 PG 1h 43m 7.2

During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.

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.

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Info about Summer of '42

Studio(s): Warner Bros. Pictures

Originally Released: Apr 19, 1971

Production Country: United States

Budget: $1,000,000.00

Genres: Drama, Romance

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