Summer Solstice

Film per la TV
1981
1h 15min

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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaFifty years after their wedding, a couple celebrating their golden anniversary reminisce about when they first met. Through flashbacks, we see them fall in love.Fifty years after their wedding, a couple celebrating their golden anniversary reminisce about when they first met. Through flashbacks, we see them fall in love.Fifty years after their wedding, a couple celebrating their golden anniversary reminisce about when they first met. Through flashbacks, we see them fall in love.

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CaptPeacock

Very Lucky To Have Recorded This!

This one of my favorite Henry Fonda movies. Myrna Loy is excellent in this one. I think this is the only time these two great stars worked together.

If this is so, it's a shame. They were very good in this. I got the feeling while watching that there wasn't much acting here. Usually, this is bad. But, not here. This was a very natural performance.

I was lucky enough to catch in on HBO. And very lucky to have recorded it on DVD!

I don't think this will ever see release on DVD. Which is a shame. This is some of the best work either Myrna Loy or Henry Fonda ever did. I'm surprise it was on HBO at all. I suspect it was used as filler.

But, what a great way to spend an hour!

10richardmonse

memories everlasting

this is one of the most powerful depiction of two people in love for a quote of, until death do us part. more touching than i could ever imagine. for many years i have waited for a production to be released to the public. a must to see for all couples readying to take their vows or have taken them. at my age i don't remember everything, but i still remember this movie like it was yesterday.it's at the beach, when i look out over the water and i see the movie playing, that my love for my best friend grows stronger. the hard times and the good times are so well portrayed in this movie, that i use some of the lessons learned in my

life today. this movie shows that life may be at times very tormenting, but the love and union of two people can be stronger than any hurdle put before two people that sanction as one. i do hope this movie will be on the market soon, for our new generations to see.

dpuopolo

This was a made for TV movie..

This was a made for TV movie produced by WCVB-TV, Boston, MA. The movie was the end result of a viewer's script that won a script contest conducted by WCVB. It was shot on Cape Cod.

They got Henry Fonda because he had just finished shooting: "On Golden Pond" in New Hampshire. He literally was already in the area.

Ironically, this wound up being his last film (and Myrna Loy's too).

Some dismiss it as a "TV Movie". I don't! I believe that it is as good as any theatrical release. You must remember that since WCVB produced it, it was going to air on their station first.

8JLRMovieReviews

Fonda and Loy at Cape Cod

Henry Fonda and Myrna Loy star in this made for TV short film, whose history of how it came about you can read on other reviews. I did read them, which I usually don't. I don't have much to add, except for a few things. Fonda and Loy play a married couple who make a day trip to the beach on Cape Cod and look back on their life together.

I went into this not knowing what to expect, but I had hoped on 50 minutes of Fonda and Loy, like in a one-act play. But instead I get Stephen Collins and Lindsay Crouse as them in flashbacks. I might appreciate it more the second time around now that I know what to expect, but the presence of such great actors as Henry Fonda and Myrna Loy in their last years of their lives seems to command the respect and attention of the viewer even from the beginning, Miss Loy being ever the graceful lady and Fonda seeming to have been through it all. (He died soon after this, but not before winning an Oscar for his last theatrical movie, On Golden Pond, accepted on his behalf by his daughter Jane Fonda.)

If you get the chance to see Summer Solstice, it's a chance to see true legends working together for the first time. It's an experience you're not likely to forget.

providencenana-1

Unforgettable film should be re-released.

I saw this movie when it originally aired in 1981 and found it to be one of the most touching and powerful stories I have ever seen. I can't believe that it has been neglected all these years and is not even available to be viewed on tape or DVD. I believe it was the last movie that Henry Fonda ever made (at least for TV). That fact alone should have been a reason to make it more available. I only hope that the film will shown in the future. I, myself, would buy it in a heartbeat! Why is it that some films that have absolutely no socially redeeming value seem to be available on every format and can be purchased or rented with endless possibilities and yet a film like this one has to be sought out through "rare" venues. I don't get it.

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Henry Fonda's last role - he filmed this after Sul lago dorato (1981).

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Ranger: Sorry folks - can't be there!
Joshua: [to Margaret] We can't be here.
Margaret: Must be somewhere else instead!
Ranger: Ah, didn't you see me wave?
Margaret: We waved back.
Ranger: Well, didn't you see the sign?
Joshua: What sign?
Ranger: Erosion control.
Joshua: You mean, we're eroding so we can't be here?
Margaret: Oh, Dear, don't tease him, he thinks you mean it.
Joshua: I do mean it.
Margaret: You look dazzling in that uniform! Why don't you join us in some wine?
Ranger: You're not allowed to drink alcohol here either.
Joshua: You know a man my age has very few pleasures left.
Ranger: I'm sorry. You'll have to stop.
Joshua: I've been saying that for years!
Ranger: Ah, look, could we discuss this over on the boardwalk? It's bad for the dunes.
Joshua: Walking on them?
Ranger: Wears them out.
Joshua: Wears me out. I doubt it wears them out.
Ranger: Sir, I don't want to argue with you...
Joshua: Good!
Ranger: The geological facts are that every time someone walks on the dunes, their footprints leave a slightly greater depression in the sand. They gouge out these exposed paths and before you know it, you've got what we call a "Blow out".
Ranger: Heavens!
Joshua: How long have you been on this seashore?
Ranger: Three months.
Joshua: We've walked on this beach for over fifty years. We've seen erosion plans come and go and they always fail - and you know why? Because erosion is a natural state of Cape Cod. As it is with everything else here. Have some wine.
Ranger: Sorry. Rules are rules.
Joshua: Yes, rules certainly are that - and nothing else.
Ranger: You gonna cooperate?
Joshua: Just don't shoot. We'll come peacefully.
Ranger: Thank you.
[he gets up to leave]
Joshua: Be careful where you step.
[to Margaret]
Joshua: Power hungry!
Margaret: Must be the artist in you.
Joshua: What do you mean?
Margaret: You always seem to clash with authority figures.
Joshua: Oh, that's nothing. You inspired that, long ago.
Margaret: Oh!