The lazy, hazy days of summer are a good time to catch up on movies.  These movies range from campy comedy to romance to thriller and all take place in the summertime.

	American Graffiti The misadventures of four California high school graduates one late summer night in 1962. Directed by George Lucas.  Starring Richard Dreyfuss & Ron Howard. PG
	American Pie 2 The guys have just finished their freshman year of college and are now ready to take on conquering the summer. After renting a summer house at the beach to live in, the guys have to take on a job in order to pay for the house and all the beer they can drink. At the end of the summer they want to have a party to beat all parties. Directed by James B. Rogers. Starring Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan, & Chris Klein.  Sequel to American Pie. R
	Dirty Dancing Summer romance between a dance instructor and a guest at a hotel in the Catskills. Directed by Emile Ardolino.  Starring Jennifer Grey & Patrick Swayze. PG-13
	The Endless Summer A documentary on the search for the perfect wave, in which two Californians take off with their surfboards for Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti and Hawaii. Directed by Bruce Brown. NR
	The Flamingo Kid Jeffrey Willis, a plumber's son, gets a job as a cabana boy at the El Flamingo Beach Club. A summer of innocence, and of change. Directed by Garry Marshall. Starring Matt Dillon. PG-13
	I Know What You Did Last Summer & I Still Know What You Did Last Summer After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. But exactly one year later, the dead man returnes from his watery grave, and he's looking for more than an apology. Directed by Jim Gillespie. Starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillipe, & Freddie Prinze, Jr. Based on the book I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan. R
	Indian Summer A group of childhood friends, now in their thirties, reunite at Camp Tamakwa. Directed by Mike Binder. Starring Alan Arkin, Bill Paxton, & Elizabeth Perkins. PG-13
	Little Secrets Fourteen-year-old Emily is the neighborhood secret keeper. While her friends are away at summer camp, Emily befriends her new next-door neighbor, Philip. She spends part of her time practicing her violin for an important audition with a prestigious symphony and part of her time listening to the neighborhood secrets . Emily lets Philip in on her secrets and it isn't long before it leads to betrayal and hurt. Directed by Blair Treu. Starring Evan Rachel Wood, Michael Angarano & David Gallagher. PG
	Long Hot Summer Ben Quick, an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner, gets run out of a Mississippi town. He meets up with Clara Varner, whose father is pressuring her to get married and provide him with grandchildren. It isn't long before he decides Ben and Clara should marry, and when she resists, it sets up a dramatically escalating clash of wills. Directed by Martin Ritt.  Starring Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward. Based on the book by William Faulkner. NR
	My Girl A precocious 11-year-old tomboy obsessed with death shares a poignant summer with her widowed mortician father, the sexy and kind cosmetician he hires, and most importantly with the boy-next-door who idolizes her. Directed by Howard Zieff.  Starring Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin, & Anna Chlumsky. PG
	My Life as a Dog Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age. Directed by Lasse Hallström. NR
	Mystic Pizza Three young women, waitresses at a pizza parlor in Mystic , Connecticut, spend a special summer discovering romance. Directed by Donald Petrie. Starring Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, & Lili Taylor. R
	National Lampoon's Vacation When a typical American family takes a cross-country vacation , it can only mean one thing: total disaster! Directed by Harold Ramis. Starring Chevy Chase & Beverly D'Angelo. R
	On Golden Pond While at their summer home on Golden Pond , the Thayer family is forced to renew their bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years. Directed by Mark Rydell. Starring Henry Fonda, Katherine Hepburn, & Jane Fonda. PG
	Suddenly, Last Summer Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.  Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katherine Hepburn, & Montgomery Clift. Based on the play Suddenly, Last Summer by Tennessee Williams. NR
	Summer Catch America's two national pastimes, baseball and romance, are in play in this Bull Durham style comedy romance. Lawnboy Brian Dunne joins an elite summer league and falls for a vacationing Vassar grad. Her family, however, does not think him suitable. Directed by Michael Tollin. Starring Freddie Prinze, Jr. & Jessica Biel. PG-13
	Summer of '42 Three teenage friends convey the hilarity of their awkward sexual quest and the genuine pain of growing up. Hermie is finally united with an "older woman" of 22. Directed by Robert Mulligan. Starring Jennifer O'Neill. PG
	Summer of Sam It's the summer of 1971 in New York City. The heat is soaring to record highs, blackouts are filling the streets with looters - and the murders of a man who calls himself the Son of Sam are gripping the giant city in fear. Directed by Spike Lee.  Starring John Leguizamo & Mira Sorvino. R
	Summer of the Monkeys Jay Berry Lee is a twelve-year-old boy growing up on a farm who dreams of buying a pony he loves. When his dog Rowdy wants to investigate a strange noise in "the bottoms" - a place where Jay is forbidden to go - he reluctantly follows. Incredibly, they discover a band of four runaway circus monkeys who prove to be clever and elusive troublemakers. Once Jay learns there is a handsome reward for their return, the chase is on for a summer of fun, thrills and danger. Directed by Michael Anderson.  Starring Michael Ontkean & Leslie Hope.  Based on the book Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls. G
	Summer Place Johnny Hunter watches Molly Jorgensen through his telescope as she is sailing toward Maine resort of Pine Island - and she is watching him through her binoculars. It's love at first sight. Directed by Delmer Daves.  Starring Richard Egan & Dorothy McGuire. Based on the book A Summer Place by Wilson Sloan. NR
	Summer School A laid-back teacher with plans for a summer in Hawaii winds up teaching remedial English. Directed by Carl Reiner.  Starring Mark Harmon & Kirstie Alley. PG-13
	Summertime The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man. Directed by David Lean.  Starring Katherine Hepburn & Rossano Brazzi. NR
	Tuck Everlasting Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and her domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost. Her magical summer begins when she meets Jesse Tuck. Jesse is full of life and adventure and Winnie falls in love. The Tuck family has a powerful secret-- a spring that holds the magic of everlasting life. Now Winnie must choose whether she wants to live life as she knows it or drink from the spring. Directed by Jay Russell. Starring Alexis Bledel, William Hurt, Sissy Spacek, & Jonathan Jackson. Based on the book Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. PG
	A Walk on the Moon It's the summer of 1969 and Pearl is spending yet another vacation with her family when she realizes that the freedom of the times is passing her by. Following a chance meeting with a sexy, free-spirited young man, Pearl is soon doing the unthinkable: having a daring, passionate affair. But she must ultimately decide between the love of her husband and children - or the lure of her newfound desires. Directed by Tony Goldwyn.  Starring Diane Lane & Viggo Mortensen. R
	The War It's Mississippi, the summer of 1970, and two children are determined to build the ultimate treehouse with their friends, while their father, a newly returned Vietnam vet, has equally high hopes to rebuild his life. Directed by Jon Avnet.  Starring Kevin Costner & Elija Wood. PG-13