

Summer of '42
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.
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- Released
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- Language
- English
- island
- beach
- sexual frustration
- age difference
- obsession
- world war ii
- sand
- coming of age
- summer vacation
- beach house
- first love
- older woman younger man relationship
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremierePGNew York City, New York18 Apr 1971
- TheatricalPG19 Apr 1971
BrazilBR
- TheatricalIMDB26 Apr 1971
- Physical14IMDB1 Jan 2000
FranceFR
- Theatrical16 Jun 1971
JapanJP
- TheatricalR18+7 Aug 1971
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical14 Oct 1971
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Summer of '42 was released on 19 April 1971.
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1- W8/10
Wuchak
5/21/2018
**_Sex-obsessed boys on Nantucket in 1942_** RELEASED IN 1971 and directed by Robert Mulligan, "Summer of '42” is the biographical drama of Herman “Hermie” Raucher (Gary Grimes) coming of age at 15 during the titular season & year on Nantucket Island. He and his two pals, Oscy and Benji, hang out on the island learning about sex and chasing girls. Meanwhile, Hermie is an awe of a 21 year-old woman (Jennifer O'Nei…
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