Summer of '42

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Romance
4/19/1971
103
PG

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

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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    Sex-obsessed boys on Nantucket in 1942

    RELEASED IN 1971 and directed by Robert Mulligan, "Summer of '42 is the biographical drama of Herman Hermie Raucher (Gary Grimes) coming of age at 15 during the titular season & year on Nantucket Island. He and his two pals, Oscy and Benji, hang out on the island learning about sex and chasing girls. Meanwhile, Hermie is an awe of a 21 year-old woman (Jennifer O'Neill) whose soldier husband is off fighting WWII.

    This is such a well-done classic film from the early 70s. The island locales are breathtaking while the story is low-key realistic, which is fitting since it was based on a real-life. Its basically about a teenage boy in awe of a beautiful adult whoa-man of whom ONeill voluptuously fil...

    May 21, 2018

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