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Summer of '70: Directed by Sean O'Connor. With George Katt, Irene Glezos, Jillie Simon, Ari Blinder. Brian Murdoch flees his mother and alcoholic stepfather to the Jersey Shore in search of girls, drugs, the wild 1960s...and his legendary, free-living father, Jack, who doesn't even know he was ever born. (Feature)
- Sean O'Connor
- 2022-03
- Drama
- George Katt, Olivia Jude, Ari Blinder
- Alexandra Hough
- National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) Who’s in it: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Anthony Michael Hall, Dana Barron. Rating: R. Chevy Chase is the hapless moral center of this road trip movie that moves from Chicago to the Grand Canyon to a shuttered Los Angeles amusement park.
- Girls Trip (2017) Who’s in it: Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tiffany Haddish. Rating: R. In this comedy, four friends, aka “The Flossy Posse,” take a trip to the annual Essence Festival to relive their college days.
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Who’s in it: Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Drew Barrymore. Rating: PG. Steven Spielberg’s 1982 sci-fi movie—the highest-grossing film of its decade—was based on an imaginary friend the director created following his parents’ divorce.
- The Karate Kid (1984) Who’s in it: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue. Rating: PG. After a life-changing summer, Daniel can’t seem to shake a group of bullies.
- Shaft
- Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
- Deliverance
- American Graffiti
- Chinatown
- Nashville
- Jaws
- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
- Grease
- Animal House
Melvin Van Peebles' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song may have gotten the ball rolling for blaxploitation, but Gordon Parks' Shaft helped the movement explode. Sure, Shaft was a more commercial film, but the righteous anger remained the same. The film's title character, played by Richard Roundtree, is one who lives and breathes 'cool.' His swagger ...
Roald Dahl may have disowned the film — even though he contributed as a screenwriter — but Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka still introduced many children to a "world of pure imagination" in this adaptation of Dahl's novel. Wilder's performance as a whimsical, yet duplicitous Wonka was only the tip of the iceberg, with a number of memorable musical moment...
Summer films are usually feel-good enterprises with little overall unpleasantness. Such cannot be said about 1972's Deliverance, one of the more notorious films to come out of the '70s. Starring Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight and Ned Beatty, Deliverance's tale of four friends looking to take in the beauty of the wilderness is one defined by contrasts. B...
Before granting audiences the visual pleasures of a galaxy far, far away, director George Lucas provided tender rumination on the comforts of the familiar and the frightening aspect of leaving them behind in the coming-of-age film American Graffiti. Featuring Ron Howard and Richard Dreyfuss, the film depicts four friends trying to make the most of ...
One of the more lasting images in cinema is Jack Nicholson's Jake Gittes with the bandage taped to his nose. That image, courtesy of the grim neo-noir mystery Chinatown, was a collision course between a well-established director and an actor on his way to the top. Director Roman Polanski's reputation had been set with films such as Repulsion and Ro...
Nashville's promotion calls the film "The damnedest thing you ever saw," and in many respects, that statement's accuracy is verifiable. First of all, the film features a massive ensemble cast of 24, including Lily Tomlin, Geraldine Chaplin and Henry Gibson, just to name a few. Secondly, the film uses Nashville and the country music industry as a li...
Doesn't it seem strange that Jaws, one of Steven Spielberg's most heavily-revered films, was essentially a spiritual successor to a TV movie he had directed about a man being chased by a maniacal truck driver? Perhaps, but still, Jaws is immediately recognizable on its own for the contributions it made for modern cinema. Summers would never be the ...
Indeed, Star Wars was a bit of a leap from American Graffiti, but George Lucas's deft touch and ambitious screenplay helped redefine the then-fledgling interpretation of a 'summer movie.' Lucas and producer Gary Kurtz intended the film to be a space opera with a "low-budget, Roger Corman style," but little could they realize the future fandom they ...
In spite of its admittedly cloying sweetness, Grease remains the highest grossing musical film of all time for a reason. Its strong leads, warm nostalgia — more for the concept of young love than the period in which it's set — and some incredibly catchy songs have made it live on through the ages. John Travolta was still riding the waves of Saturda...
Every high school or college comedy released in the last 15 to 20 years has been inspired by and can be traced back to one film: National Lampoon's Animal House. These sorts of films are known for continually upping the ante with each passing gag, and John Landis' film certainly keeps piling on the obscenity in every scene. On its surface, Animal H...
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When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down. Director Steven Spielberg Stars Roy Scheider Robert Shaw Richard Dreyfuss. Worldwide Box Office: 470 Mio $ Budget: 9 Mio $ 2. The Omen. 1976 1h 51m R. 7.5 (137K) Rate. 62 Metascore.
Summer of '42 is a 1971 American coming-of-age film directed by Robert Mulligan, and starring Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, and Christopher Norris. Based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman "Hermie" Raucher, it follows a teenage boy who, during the summer of 1942 on Nantucket Island, embarks on a one-sided romance with a young ...
Jul 30, 2000 · The summer of 1970 was bracketed by the release of the X-rated ''Myra Breckinridge,'' perhaps the most reviled studio production ever, and ''Soldier Blue,'' a phenomenally violent and...
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Aug 18, 2024 · This crowd-ranked list celebrates the best summer movies that capture the essence of those breezy, sunshine-filled months. Movie fans with a love for hot fun in the sun voted on their favorites, making this compilation a true reflection of the most beloved summertime flicks out there.
