History Film / SummerOf42

* ComfortingTheWidow: Hermie comes to visit Dorothy's shack one evening, only to find her weeping, after receiving a telegram notifying her that her husband was killed in action over France. Sex follows.

* ShoutOut: Hermie, Oscy, and their girlfriends watch ''Film/NowVoyager'' at the local movie theater.

* PrecisionFStrike: Offered up by Oscy.
-->"Sometimes life is just one big pain in the ass."

* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: While Raucher's real-life experiences took place on Nantucket, the island is left unnamed in the film and called Packett Island in the novelization. In any case, the movie was [[CaliforniaDoubling shot around Mendocino, CA]], which is not on an island but offers plenty of coastal SceneryPorn regardless.

* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: While Raucher's real-life experience took place on Nantucket, the island is left unnamed in the film and called Packett Island in the novelization. In any case, the movie was [[CaliforniaDoubling shot around Mendocino, CA]], which is not on an island but offers plenty of coastal SceneryPorn regardless.

* ThatNostalgiaShow: Herman Rauscher's almost-autobiographical look back at his own summer vacation of 29 years previous.

* CaliforniaDoubling: In Rauscher's memoir it's Nantucket; in the film it's a non-specific island. In any case, the movie was shot around Mendocino, CA, which is not on an island but offers plenty of coastal SceneryPorn regardless.

* NostalgicNarrator: Robert Mulligan providing the voice of the adult Herman Raucher.
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* NostalgicNarrator: Robert Mulligan providing the voice of adult Hermie.

''Summer of '42'' is a 1971 film directed by Robert Mulligan, written by Herman Raucher, based on Raucher's own life as a teenager during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. It is perhaps best known for providing ''the'' role of Jennifer O'Neill's career and for including ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHezowVjDX4 that]]'' music.

* CaliforniaDoubling: In Rauscher's memoir it's Nantucket; in the film it's a non-specific island. In any case, the movie was shot around Mendocino, CA and the Mendocino Lighthouse, neither of which are on an island.

* JizzInMyPants: Not definitively stated, but certainly implied during a scene where Dorothy, clad in a tank top and [[WhoWearsShortShorts short shorts]], asks poor Hermie for help in loading some boxes in her attic.

* JizzInMyPants: Not definitively stated, but certainly implied during a scene where Dorothy, clad in a tank top and cargo shorts, asks poor Hermie for help in loading some boxes in her attic.

Hermie is a teenaged boy on an island (Nantucket Island in Raucher's memoir) in [[CaptainObvious the summer of 1942]]. Hermie and his friends--Oscy the jock and Benjie the shy nerd--aren't too concerned with the war, but they are very concerned with sex and girls. When Benjie reveals that his parents own a textbook about sex, it is a major event in the the lives of the boys. Oscy starts putting the moves on a pretty blonde he meets at the movie theater. Hermie also met a girl at the movie theater, but his attention is elsewhere: on Dorothy, a woman at least ten years older than he is, who has a cottage on the beach. At the beginning of the movie Hermie sees Dorothy bidding goodbye to her husband, a paratrooper who has gone off to fight in the war.

->''"Nothing from that first day I saw her, and no one that has happened to me since, has ever been as frightening and as confusing. For no person I've ever known has ever done more to make me feel more sure, more insecure, more important, and less significant."''

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->''In everyone's life, there's [[ComingOfAgeStory a "summer of '42"]]''\\
-- '''{{Tagline}}'''

* {{Narrator}}: Robert Mulligan providing the voice of adult Hermie.

->''In everyone's life there's [[ComingOfAgeStory a "summer of '42"]]''\\

* TheVoice: Hermie's mom, heard a couple of times through the walls, never seen.

''Summer of '42'' is a 1971 film directed by Robert Mulligan, written by Herman Raucher, based on Raucher's own life as a teenager during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. It is perhaps best known for providing ''the'' role of Jennifer O'Neill's career and for including ''that'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHezowVjDX4 music]].

''Summer of '42'' is a 1971 film directed by Robert Mulligan, written by Herman Raucher, based on Raucher's own life as a teenager during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

In 1973, the movie was followed by a [[FirstInstallmentWins forgotten sequel]], ''Class of '44''. It featured the return of Hermie, Oscy, and Benjie (all played by the same actors) with [[SequelNonEntity no appearance by Dorothy]] (maintaining consistency with the original, in which Narrator Adult Hermie says he never saw her again).

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Dorthy is guilty of statutory rape. Even in 1942, the age of consent in Massachusetts (the story presumably taking place on Nantucket Island) was sixteen whereas Hermie is fifteen. This is considered perfectly fine, but can you imagine if they had made a movie about a twentysomething widower sleeping with a willing fifteen-year-old girl?