Summer Love

Original title: Summer '03

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5.5/10

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A 16-year-old girl and her extended family are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of secrets on her deathbed.A 16-year-old girl and her extended family are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of secrets on her deathbed.A 16-year-old girl and her extended family are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of secrets on her deathbed.

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IMDb RATING

5.5/10

4.1K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations total

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Featured review

6/10

a few laughs in coming of age comedy

It's the summer of 2003. Jamie Winkle (Joey King) and her family are sent into chaos when her dying grandmother Dotty (June Squibb) unveils a series of revelations. Baby Jamie had been baptized by Dotty without telling her Jewish mother Shira (Andrea Savage). Jamie is taken with Luke who is training to be a priest. March has an unrequited crush on her. Her best friend Emily is a fast girl from L.A.

This is a relatively standard coming of age dysfunctional family comedies about a hormone filled teen. This one is about a girl which comes with its own issues. I struggle with Jamie's likeability. She's struggling to know right from wrong and sex and all the big questions. Joey King is a hot girl looking for sex. It's never quite as funny as a geeky guy desperately trying to lose his virginity. Guys look stupid and the audience laugh at them. It's tougher to make girls struggle to have sex. The best that can be achieved is the girls having bad sex and Jamie isn't even doing that. There are still laughs to be had in this movie but whoever this Becca Gleason is, she has to figure out how to get more humor out of her comedies.

SnoopyStyle
Jan 11, 2019
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Summer '03: Advice From Grandma

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Trivia
Jacob Elordi, who stars with Joey King in The Kissing Booth (also released in 2018), can be seen, standing as a shirtless extra, in the party scene at the beginning of the movie.

Goofs
Towards the middle of the film, when Jamie and Emily are sitting on the hood of the car eating ice cream, the amount of ice cream on Emily's cone fluctuates with each camera angle, even at one point in three consecutive shots, going from almost full, to almost gone, back to almost full again.

Quotes
[First lines]
Jamie Winkle: [narrating] Isn't it funny how you can never remember much about summer? It's kinda just like, I don't know, a generic string of happy memories. Like that feeling when you leave on the last day of school and when your hands get sticky from ice-cream melting off the cone. Swimming with friends, sometimes with boys if you're lucky. Sleeping till 2. Borrowing the car. When nothing significant ever happens, it's very easy for the days to melt together... passing slowly like a lazy river.
[a small conversation with Shira]
Jamie Winkle: This was the summer I fucked up.