Summer of '42
1971 · 1h 43m · Comedy, Drama, Romance · United States of America · Rated PG (US)
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.
Directed by
Robert MulliganWritten by
Herman Raucher6.5Smart score
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1940sage differencebeachbeach housecoming of agefirst loveislandobsessionolder woman younger man relationshipsandsexual awakeningsexual frustrationsoldier's wifesummer cottagesummer vacationworld war ii
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