Summer of '42
“In everyone's life there's a "Summer of '42"”
ComedyDramaRomance
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.
VIBE
A tender, sun-drenched coming-of-age story. It captures the sweet ache of first love and burgeoning desire against the backdrop of a wartime summer. Feels like a hazy, bittersweet memory you can almost touch.
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