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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.
Summer of '42 is a film that explores themes of island, beach, sexual frustration. It also touches on age difference and obsession and world war ii.
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Director
Robert Mulligan
Cast
Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant, Katherine Allentuck, Christopher Norris, Lou Frizzell, Walter Scott, Maureen Stapleton, Robert Mulligan
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Summer of '42
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6.7/10
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78%
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Director
Robert Mulligan
Cast
Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant, Katherine Allentuck, Christopher Norris, Lou Frizzell, Walter Scott, Maureen Stapleton, Robert Mulligan
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island · beach · sexual frustration · age difference · obsession · world war ii · sand · coming of age · summer vacation · beach house
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