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Writer-director David Swift’s inventive and amusing 1961 Walt Disney live-action comedy-adventure The Parent Trap tells the story of twin sisters who meet for the first time on a summer holiday and decide to try to […]
Young showbiz hopefuls join a summer musical camp and put on a show, guided by alcoholic, washed-up Broadway choreographer-songwriter Bert Hanley (Don Dixon). The talented teens sing their socks off in writer-director Todd Graff’s sweet, […]
Jack Reynor stars in his breakout performance as Richard Karlsen, head of his privileged set of South Dublin teenagers, in director Lenny (Leonard) Abrahamson’s quietly devastating 2012 Irish drama. In the summer between the end […]
Director Mark Rydell’s triple-Oscar-winning 1981 tearfully poignant, heart-warming family-conflict drama is a triumphantly sentimental story of crotchety retired professor Norman Thayer (Henry Fonda), alienated from his daughter (Jane Fonda) and fearful about the onset of […]
Director Joseph Losey and his screenwriter Harold Pinter together fashion this most ravishing and touching 1971 film out of L P Hartley’s marvellous, delicate novel about the divided loyalties of a young boy (Dominic Guard) who, […]
Marie Rivière stars as a 20something Parisian secretary singleton yearning for the true love that’s eluded her so far. The emotionally vulnerable vegetarian Delphine is depressed when she’s forced to spend her summer holiday alone […]
Director John Whitesell’s Fifties-set 1993 youth-oriented coming-of-age comedy stars Jason Priestley, Gabriel Olds and Jerry O’Connell as late teens who go to Hollywood to fulfil the dream of meeting Marilyn Monroe. One summer holiday, cocky Roy Darpinian […]