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A Summer Place
Capsule by Jonathan Rosenbaum
From the Chicago Reader

Back in 1959 some teenagers took this opulent story of adultery and teenage love seriously, though I wasn't one of them. Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy, and Troy Donahue compete with the lush scenery (it's supposed to be the east coast, though much of it was shot in California) and the hyperbole provided by Sloan Wilson's source novel, Max Steiner's highly successful score, and Delmer Daves's characteristically giddy direction. 130 min.

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