A Summer Place (1959)
Directed by Delmer Daves
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.
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Granted, we've come a long way from cautionary teen-dream fantasies like A Summer Place (1959), in which sex before marriage instantly leads to unplanned pregnancy.
We're revisiting that teen movie shrine, A Summer Place, where the sea glitters and first kisses are exchanged on balmy evenings amid lengthening shadows.
What distinguishes this British import from "A Summer Place'' and other Hollywood tales of impossible first love isn't the lesbianism, which director Pawel Pawlikowski wisely plays down.
Half of "The Notebook" is a silly, syrupy romance about a pair of star-crossed lovers whose powerful attraction is threatened by such reliable obstacles class differences, mean old parents who just don?t understand and a world war-basically the kind of story that was already beginning to seem shopworn and cliched back in the days of "A Summer Place" and "Splendor in the Grass".
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A movie version being inevitable, this Valentine’s Day gift to the world of schlock cinema, scripted by Kelly Marcel (Saving Mr. Banks) and directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson (Nowhere Boy), tries valiantly to elevate the Twilight fan fiction-inspired source material to a level of melodrama worthy of ‘60s stuff like A Summer Place or Strangers When We Meet.