Summer of '42

Summer of '42 is a 1971 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Robert Mulligan, based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher.
==Plot==
Teenage Herman Raucher (Gary Grimes), summering on Nantucket Island with his sex-obsessed pals Oscy (Jerry Houser) and Benji (Oliver Conant) during World War II, meets Dorothy (Jennifer O'Neill), a newlywed in her 20s whose husband is off at war. As his friends awkwardly attempt to woo girls their own age, Herman slowly befriends the older woman and finds himself becoming increasingly in love with her, until a sudden tragedy changes their lives forever.
==Cast==
*Jennifer O'Neill as Dorothy
*Gary Grimes as Hermie
*Jerry Houser as Oscy
*Oliver Conant as Benjie
*Katherine Allentuck as Aggie
*Christopher Norris as Miriam
*Lou Frizzell as Druggist
Uncredited
*Robert Mulligan (voice only) as Narrator/Older Herman Raucher
*Walter Scott as Dorothy's husband
*Maureen Stapleton (voice only) as Hermie's Mother
Category:1971 films
Category:American films
Category:English-language films
Category:American coming-of-age films
Category:American drama films
Category:Drama films
Category:Films based on memoirs
Category:Rated R