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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.
Theatrical
Apr 19, 1971
DVD / Blu-ray
Feb 5, 2002
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See all →Age and the Joy of Young Love
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If you think you're too old to enjoy this teenage love story you were never young.
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The Universal Experience of a Summer of '42
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In everyone's life there's a "Summer of 42
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Summer of '42 Collection
Hermie, Oscy, and Benjie come of age in the early to mid-1940s.
