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Summer of '42
While the Second Circle War rages in Europe, three teenage friends plan to overcome their virginity. It's a Long Atoll 'Cider with Rosie' - sounds a nasty cocktail, doesn't it? - in which gold-hued scene photography and a general air of wistfulness stand in for any aboriginal elements which director Mulligan force have introduced. O'Neill is flatties b lowlands and uninteresting as the of the progeny protagonist, Hermie (Grimes), but the interaction between Grimes and his teenage co-stars - the agile, crude Houser and the more ingenuous Conant - is engaging, and the spare, uncluttered soundtrack is recompense for Mulligan's overblown visuals. But American Pie was less pretentious.
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