by Carys Mills
Wish your summer involved… 

A. Being carefree because the only place you have to be is your baseball game.
B. A summer love.
C. Surfing.
D. Travelling.
E. Any of the above. 

Yeah me too, in reality I’ll live vicariously through films about significantly more entertaining summers than my own.  

Now and Then

Four friends are reunited by the summer of 1970 — bike riding, “the talk” with parents, séances, skinny dipping and beating boys up. 

The Seven-Year Itch

A husband sends his wife and son away to the country for the summer and falls for the blonde upstairs, played by none other than Marilynn Monroe.  

The Sandlot

Maybe it’s a kids movie and you’re not as scared of The Beast as you were before, but it’s worth to watching to remember the days when being good at baseball won you your friends.  

Grease

Oh summer loving, happened so fast. Sandy and Danny fall in love over the summer at the beach and end both end up at Rydell High in the fall. You know you want to sing along.  

Blue Crush

Surf girls living in a beach hut and cleaning hotel rooms for a living all summer long, luckily there are cute tourists to take their minds of work.  

Jaws

This shouldn’t scare you away from vacationing anyway near the water, it’s just a classic. Kind of makes me glad there’s no Great Whites in Lake Ontario though, right? 

The Parent Trap

Beside a set of twins being reunited and creating a lot of mischief, the original film’s Camp Walden will remind you of summer camp. 

It Was A Short Summer, Charlie Brown

Nothing says a carefree childhood summer more than camp and cartoons combined by Charlie Brown. 

Beach Party

‘60’s teenage surfers Frankie and Dee Dee are studied by an anthropology professor investigating the sex habits of teenagers.  

Eurotrip

The film depicts the summer voyage to Europe that many students embark on every year complete with classic stereotypes of European countries. Absinthe and other late night escapades lead to some very awkward silences.