Last Summer

Last Summer

1969 · 95 min · EN · R · 6.3 (31 votes)
Dir. Frank Perry · Starring Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Catherine Burns, Bruce Davison, Ernesto Gonzalez, Conrad Bain · Music John Simon

Last summer was too beautiful to forget. And too painful to remember.

Drama

During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.

VIBE

A hazy, sun-bleached memory of youthful summers. It captures the intoxicating freedom and intense emotions of adolescence, tinged with a growing darkness. A beautiful, yet unsettling, look at burgeoning desire and the cruelty that can bloom in paradise.

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