Summer Fling | Catherine O'Hara, Jared Leto

Summer Fling | Catherine O'Hara, Jared Leto | Not Terrible, But It Could Have Been Better

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Summer Fling

	Summer Fling Catherine O'Hara, Jared Leto Miramax, 2003 average customer review:based on 11 reviews view larger image
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This crowd-pleasing comedy, featuring big-screen favorites Gabriel Byrne (GHOST SHIP, END OF DAYS), Catherine O'Hara (HOME ALONE 1&2, BEST IN SHOW), and Christina Ricci (THE OPPOSITE OF SEX, SLEEPY HOLLOW), shows that growing up in one offbeat family isn't always easy ... but it is always funny! shows that growing up in one offbeat family isn't always easy ... but it is always funny! June has arrived, and Frankie (Jared Leto -- PANIC ROOM, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM) is sure he's blown his exams ... along with his one shot at getting into college! But before the test results hit, he'll have a wild time pursuing his summer's major goals: planning the ultimate beach bash ... and getting better acquainted with the babes in bikinis he's admired from afar! If you're ready for sexy laughs, don't miss the entertaining fun of Frankie's hilarious summer to remember!

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Great feel good movie

Summer Fling is wonderfully fun and entertaining. The kind of film you'll want to watch again and again and share with others. Outstanding work done by the cast, especially Catherine O'Hara and Jared Leto. Don't miss this one.

Not Terrible, But It Could Have Been Better

Like many of the other reviewers, I saw this film under another title (LAST OF THE HIGH KINGS) and the other title was a bit more appropriate. SUMMER FLING gives the impression that the film is about a summer romance, and while a "fling" does occur in the film, it's not the major focal point, though perhaps it should be. Actually, it was somewhat difficult determining the film's focal point or whether it was a comedy with some dramatic moments or a drama with a few comedic references.

We meet in the film a young man named Frankie (Jared Leto) who has just finished taking exams which will determine his future. In Ireland grades on exams determine college choices and ultimately career, so this is a major burden for the seemingly naturally unmotivated young man. Rather than fret about the future, he decides to spend the summer avoiding the potential of limited opportunities and has a number of escapades with his friends. Frankie's offbeat friends, while not troublemakers, are going nowhere fast. We also see Frankie have a number of interactions with his family. He's from an eccentric family. His father is a traveling actor and his mother (played by Catherine O'Hara), once a famous stage personality, is at home raising the rather odd mix of children Frankie has as siblings. Frankie's mother wants him to take an interest in his heritage, claiming the family stems from Irish royalty. She vehemently hates Protestants even though as Frankie rightly claims, many of her heroes are Protestant. Frankie discovers the opposite sex, but it is with a Protestant and member of the Labor Party, neither of which please mother or the local priest. He also misses the opportunity to find first love with an American with Irish ancestry played by Christina Ricci.

The film may be guilty of having too many potentially great plotlines that could make a viewer want more, but ultimately the viewer gets less. Frankie's mother/son conflict could have been interesting, but instead it was rather one dimensional. As it stands, the mother is just an odd duck, Frankie a teen suffering under her control, but both are potentially so rich. The friends could be an interesting lot, but we really never meet them, or at least we don't get to know them with any degree of depth. The political and religious conflicts, so much a part of Ireland in 1977 touch the film, but again not with any depth. If the film had one major plotline: his attraction to a Protestant Labor Party member and the Irish American girl who love shim but he spurns would have been the strongest and most compelling story, with the other side plots story lines adding flavor, it would have made it a stronger film. Overall SUMMER FLING is not terrible, it just could have been better.

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A good look at Ireland and Irish Mothers

I was surprised to see a few reviewers on this site bashing the movie. I agree it has a slow pace to it, but the supurb acting by O'Hara makes it a memorable film. She should have gotten an academy award for this role.
I really enjoyed this film and I just bought a used copy. Don't expect a fast paced slapstick comedy and you won't be dissapointed.

Sex and Clergy in Ireland.

I watched this movie on DVD titled "The Last of the High Kings"-and really missed a sense of a "politically correct"-style alteration.

A school-not-so-well-graduated-from Frankie waited a letter of acceptance at university, calculating days to the eventual post delivering, fooling around with other graduates, eccentric family and neighbors.

Of course, young handsome inexperienced male is a very target for sexually advanced females-both local and visiting, of whom loss of virginity initiated imminently both rage of mother's jealousy and some ill-conceived mimicry on priest's ubiquity.

Although young Leto is really good in this movie and at least three sequences- beach party, seduction of a virgin boy and boy's later description of this act - are really nice, Irish-British grass-roots affairs depicted briefly and long monologues leave a feeling of some boringness.

In general, this movie broadened my existing info of Ireland.

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