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Release Date: 14 January, 2003 Retail Price: $14.99 OUR Price: $13.99 You SAVE: $1.00! Cast: Complete Cast (12 total) |
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Summer of Love, Exams and Elvis!!
A summer in Ireland where anythings possible. Set in Ireland I was amazed by the quality of the actors accents. Jared Leto and Cathrine O'Hara being American I thought they sounded like natural irish folk. Christina Ricci only had a small role but it was memorable as the American gal who cheerleads and tries to seduce Jared Leto. The family brawls and the love of politics make Summer Fling a funny and dramatic look at life after school exams and the summer counting down the days to your results. Well worth a watch!!
Summer Fling = Summer FLOP.
I cannot even begin to illustrate how tiringly bored I became throughout watching this movie. I actually stopped it and took breaks from it before actually watching the whole thing. Let's get the basics out of the way: Frankie (Jared Leto) has just gotten out of high school, and is doomed to a summer of anxiousness and worry as he counts down the days until his final test results arrive, as these test results basically decide his immediate future for him. His father (Gabriel Byrne) is an "actor," but more so, a limp father who has about 0% of an influence on his five children, as he is always away, trying to get the part that never seems to come to him. His mother (Catherine O'Hara) is a few cans short of a six pack, and extremely prejudiced, narrow-minded, and ignorant -- and not even in a FUNNY way, just that annoying, unbelievable way. Now that we have the characters out of the way, it's due time to get into the plot, the only problem is, there isn't one. Perhaps the makers of this movie wanted it to be boring, drab, wimpy, and bleak (I highly doubt it, though), in which case, this movie is a wonderful accomplishment. On the other hand, if they wanted it to be anything but, then they really have some explaining to do. As Frankie waits for his test results, he also scopes the two girls that he went to school with from afar, only hoping to be lucky enough to hold a conversation with either one of them, as he hasn't quite decided yet which one he likes (apparently, either will do). Meanwhile, a friend of Frankie's father, Erin (Christina Ricci) ends up staying at their house for a couple of days for one reason or another (they never really gave one). Frankie's mother is adamant about forcing Frankie to take Erin out and show her a good time, as Frankie seems he would rather be caught dead than with Erin. He does take her out, though, and, after she embarrasses herself on a bus for him, no thanks to Frankie and the two girls from his school that he is after, he still doesn't give her the time of day. From here, you can almost empathize with Frankie and his anxieties swarming within his last summer of freedom, but not after he becomes a fickle, manipulative, apathetic jerk in his last scene with Erin. From here, the movie just gets even slower, and even more hard to swallow. Best of luck in trying to figure out what the hell the point of the movie was, or even the actual plot of this movie, once it's finally over.
The accents were wonderful, completely believable. Catherine O'Hara did a wonderful job playing a clueless, controlling, witch of a mother. Jared Leto plays his character wonderfully, but I don't think anyone would have a hard time playing a boring, quiet, girl-crazy teenager. Gabriel Byrne was in the movie for a total of about fifteen minutes if you paste all of his scenes together, and the same goes for Christina Ricci. Obviously, Summer Fling felt it necessary to market itself with as many big names as possible, even if these big names don't even account for 1/4 of the movie.. perhaps they knew how unintriguing the storyline actually is.
If you're considering renting this movie, DON'T. See when it'll be on television and try to enjoy it then (good luck). I'm sure some of you will find this review a bit confusing, but if you had a hard time with this review, then you'll definitely have a hard time with Summer Flop, err.. Summer Fling.
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