I'm looking for the title to a movie I saw years ago. The movie is probably late 80s or early 90s. My sketchy recollection of the plot is that the movie is set in the post-World War II period, in some beach-vacation area. A young boy befriends a war widow, and the two have a deeply emotional bond that ends when the boy's family goes home from their summer vacation. It seems like the boy maybe reminded the woman of her late husband in some way, but I can't remember for certain. I also seem to remember there being great music in this film, perhaps even a rendition of Dream a Little Dream of Me, but I can't be certain of that... Does this sound familiar to anyone???
Posted by logan5 (Member # 1467) on :
The instrumental music is pretty good. Can't remember any songs though.
Posted by No9dog (Member # 3659) on :
Thanks. This looks like the movie. This web site is great, and it's good to find a source of information from people who share my love for movies.
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
Logan5's response:
quote:It sounds like 'Summer Of '42': [snip]...The instrumental music is pretty good. Can't remember any songs though.
The movie came out in 1971. The movie was filmed just north of San Francisco. I love the scene where Hermie (played by Gary Grimes) tries to buy condoms at the drugstore!
The theme song and backgroud score is done by the French film composer Michel Legrand, who has been working in film scores since the 50's.
IIRC, the instrumental theme was a brief Top-40 hit during the early 70's.
This being an 80's board, Legrand worked on lots of movies during the decade, and won an Academy Award for his work on the Barbra Streisand musical "Yentl" (1983).
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