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A Summer Place (1959)
Released By: Warner Home Video   Rating: N/A   In Theaters: 11/18/1959
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Studio: Warner Home Video
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: N/A
Director: Delmer Daves
Language: English
Official Website: N/A
Theatrical Release: 11/18/1959
Home Video Release: 2/6/2007
Cast: Arthur Kennedy, Dorothy McGuire, Richard Egan, Sandra Dee, Troy Donahue, Constance Ford
Published ID: 718821
UPC: 085392888726,
Plot: The Jorgensons are a wealthy family spending the summer on a resort island. Ken (Richard Egan), Helen (Constance Ford) and daughter Molly (Sandra Dee) settle in to a beach house on the island where Ken was a young lifeguard twenty years ago. He rediscovers Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire), with whom he had an earlier affair before she married Bart Hunter (Arthur Kennedy). The Hunter's son Johnny (Troy Donahue) and Molly fall in love, much to the objection of her mother, a cold and cynical woman. When Ken and Sylvia start another torrid affair, the exposure of the liaison leads to the divorce of both married couples. After Johnny and Molly are stranded overnight on a beach, Molly is forced by her heartless mistrusting mother to undergo a physical examination and a pregnancy test. Tests results are negative, but more negative is the mother-daughter relationship. Ken and Sylvia get married and Molly gets pregnant. The newlyweds then compassionately guide unwed couple to marriage. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
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a summers place
Added 12/24/2009

received on time. in great shape, terrific movie, I would recommend to any one to order from
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Review of "Summer Place"
Added 10/8/2009

For its time, it was a good movie. But in comparison to today's movies it is lacking. It does bring back memories of when we were young.
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A Summer Place DVD
Added 9/16/2009

I was very happy with the DVD. It was in great shape and really enjoyed the movie.
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A Summer Place
Added 9/11/2009

I have wanted this movie since it came out. With raising a family, it was forgotten, but now I can enjoy whenever I want to. Thank You
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A Summer Place
Added 9/8/2009

The video arrived quickly. I was very pleased with the video itself. It played well and was in perfect shape.
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lavish 50's film
Added 1/15/2010

This movie introduces two early 60's teen heart throbs,
while telling the story of an actress and her black friend/ live in maid.
The maid's daughter is very close to white and by pre-civil rights standards
becomes a problem by wanted to "pass" as white.
At this time (late 40's early 50's) colored/ black people had to use different bathrooms in the south
and weren't allowed in the same schools.
So the drama is about the daughters of both mothers and their troubles growing up.
By modern standards of color being illegal to discriminate
against, the film seems strange...

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A classic
Added 10/15/2009

I bought this for a friend and she loves it.....in a period of two weeks she watched it over a dozen times. It must be good!
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The sudsiest suds
Added 10/11/2009

The Bottom Line:

Imitation of Life is undeniably soap opera, but it's also *really good* soap opera that develops characters we care about even as we recognize how artificial they are: if you want a film that's unabashed in its manipulation of the audience yet extraordinarily successful in doing so, watch this stellar film from schlock-meister Douglas Sirk.

3.5/4

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