An American Summer
5.5
“Boys Will Be Boys.”
In this youthful drama, Tom, a 14- year-old who's parents have just divorced, is abruptly uprooted from his wealthy Chicago home and sent to the strange land of LA to live in the far-out beach bungalow of his aunt, an aging hippie still stuck in a by-gone era. He is unhappy with the new arrangement and finds his new bohemian lifestyle strange and the activities of his new peers, stupid. His life begins to change a bit when he befriends a young surfer named Fin. At first he thinks of the fun-loving Fin as a real dolt, but later he admits he was wrong. Like the Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn characters on which they are loosely based, the two new friends soon find themselves having a series of adventures, some of them dangerous; by the summer's end, Tom finds himself wiser, accustomed to California, and a lot more grown up.
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Brian Austin Green
Charles 'Fin' Findley
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Michael Landes
Tom Travis
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Joanna Kerns
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Sherrié Austin
Cari
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Bo
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Brian Krause
Joey
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Nick Benedict
Mr. Finley
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John Chaidez
Dave Hartle
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Andrew Divoff
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John Zarchen
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James Slocum Director · Roger Neill Composer Bruce Dorfman Cinematographer
United States release February 24, 1991 · Produced in United States · Languages English, Spanish
Production
SVS Films
Production
American Summer
Production
Boss
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United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Spanish
Release dates
United States · February 24, 1991
Theatrical
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