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Summer Lovers
Michael Pappas and his girlfriend, Cathy, are enjoying the white sand beaches of a Greek island as well as the freewheeling nature of the locals. When Michael meets Lina, who is in Greece from Paris doing archaeological work, he is enamored with the beautiful foreigner. Cathy, unhappy about Lina getting close to Michael, confronts the woman -- only to be unexpectedly wooed by her charms as well.
Release : | 1982 |
Rating : | 5.8 |
Studio : | Filmways Pictures, |
Crew : | Production Design, Property Master, |
Cast : | Peter Gallagher Daryl Hannah Valérie Quennessen Barbara Rush Carole Cook |
Genre : | Drama Comedy Romance |
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People are voting emotionally.
If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
Watching Summer Lovers made me want to go to Greece. Although Randall Kleiser's Summer Lovers is no Grease or Blue Lagoon, it does have eye catching features and I'm not just talking about it's female leads. The story is basically a twosome interrupted by a threesome, the deceived lover, who soon becomes accepting of the situation, which in the real world, not many of us would come around to this deal. They share some real adventures, including a naked camera shoot for a pop clip, one gay guy, trying to come onto a younger Gallagher. Also we have a few hot menage de trois scenes, as well as them going to a three stooges flick, that's funny anywhere you see it. Gallagher and Hannah are satisfactory, their hot french friend that makes up the mutual love triangle, is actually better, the life of our three performers. Soon our Frenchie feels this deal is cramping her style as her friends start to become frumpy. They always are when you break curfew, staying out all night, free spirit like she is. Peter Cetera's funky end song where the three make the giant plunge from a towering cliff into the sparkling blue sea, made me want to be there so much. Nothing special, though again, I reiterate, this one falls below the standard of the other two I mentioned, as though coming across as a flop. But the movie has great scenery, and some nice sight seeing, if you get my drift. Just don't expect too much, or set your sights higher on a better movie, when next touring the aisles of your local video store.
Amorous Michael (hunky Peter Gallagher) and his sweet girlfriend Cathy (Daryl Hannah at her most charming and delectable) are an American couple vacationing on the Greek island of Santorini. Michael has a fling with alluring, exotic and uninhibited French archaeologist Lina (the mesmerizing Valerie Quennessen). Michael tells Cathy about his infidelity and Cathy goes out of her way to meet Lina. Cathy becomes so enamored of Lina that she agrees to a menage a trois relationship. Writer/director Randal Kleiser offers a good-natured and engrossing love story between three people that works as both a happy and dynamic ode to the free'n'easy early 80's sexual revolution and a provocative commentary on preconceived notions about monogamy and so-called "normal" relationships. Moreover, Kleiser handles the copious nudity and feverish sensuality in a tasteful and matter-of-fact way; this film never becomes sleazy or exploitative despite the racy subject matter. Instead a positively infectious spirit of carefree fun and innocence pervades throughout. The three attractive leads all give appealingly warm and natural performances, with the strikingly comely, poised and charismatic Quennessen rating as the stand-out of the bunch. Barbara Rush contributes a funny cameo as Cathy's loving, but disapproving mother Jean and Carole Cook is a total hoot as Jean's cheery friend Barbara. Timothy Galfas' bright, glossy cinematography vividly evokes a palpably lush and languid sultry atmosphere. The infectiously bouncy rock soundtrack adds immensely to the bubbly, upbeat merriment. An offbeat, enjoyable and underrated little delight.
well well well... Hannah is cute...Quennessen (R.I.P) is well-shaped...both are hot as hell (1982!). But i assure you i can download flicks with more skin and equally pretty faces from the net, without being bothered with postmodern artsy concerns and aiming too high for what essentially is a parade of nude bodies. Ingredients: exotic locations on some paradise beach; two female actors who might very well be from a glossy lesbian pictorial; a gummy-faced male lead who might be a gay cover model and would (probably) make a good TS/TV with a little work... Then pretend the above ingredients to be meant to impart a "deep lesson" or whatever; please... The premises are as fake as it can get and so is everything that follows. Please don't tell me that such as Hannah & Quennessen naked in their best shape fooling around with a gummy-faced gay cover model represent anything REAL...you watch it, and in your subconscious you wait for them to pull a chewing gum, an aftershave, a debt scheme or at least a tampon to advertise. When is last time you saw something similar? Now if the male lead had been Sid Justice, the female lead Sensational Sherry and the third man Dusty Rhodes, THEN at least you'd understand they had meant it in jest, but here they meant it in earnest; and it's not Shakespeare, either. Poor excuse for an escapist dream as well...now if he had beer belly, the face of Robert Davi and she looked like miss Beulah from POrky's, then we might talk about it. Glossy, pretentious nude beach informercial for simple minds pretending they're aiming high. 3/10 because of the skin.
As a teacher once told me -We were made to fornicate-. We spend our lives thinking love should come first, blocking our instincts, our love for pleasure. Anyway, just wanted to post my opinion about "summer lovers", i think i saw this movie three years ago, or so... i though i was never going to see it again, i didn't even knew the title, but guess what, i saw it today, surprisingly it was passing on TV. What I liked about it: Greece and how it was revealed with this movie The structure, the roles, the exploration, the freedom. The simplicity of gestures, of looks, of feelings. (...) I voted 9, 'cause a great movie always makes us keep the 10 to change our lives.