Over the summer of 1942 on Nantucket Island, three friends -- Hermie, Oscy and Benjie -- are more concerned with getting laid than anything else. Hermie falls in love with the married Dorothy ...

Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's ...

Both the movie and book are based on incidents that ... also got him work. Similar to Summer of ’42, he penned a novelization for Ode to Billy Joe after finishing the screenplay.

Inspired by Herman Racuher's classic novel and the 1971 film version, Summer of '42 chronicles a teen's coming of age with a lonely war bride and had a brief commercial Off-Broadway run that ...