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An American Summer
1991 5.0 (2 votes) 1h 40m
Genres
Comedy Drama
Production Companies
SVS Films
American Summer
Boss

An American Summer

Boys Will Be Boys.

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Director: James Slocum

Writer: James Slocum

Producer: Jane Hamsher, James Slocum

Director of Photography: Bruce Dorfman

Top Cast

Brian Austin Green
Brian Austin Green

Charles 'Fin' Findley

Michael Landes
Michael Landes

Tom Travis

Brian Krause
Brian Krause

Joey

Wayne Pére
Wayne Pére

Rockman

Barrett Sherwood

Surfer / Beach Bum

Chance Boyer

Forgot

Tony Crane
Tony Crane

Bo

Sherrié Austin
Sherrié Austin

Cari

Videos

An American Summer Trailer 1990

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