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www.apolloguide.com - : In the early 1980s, when the mainstream film industry was content with giving its target young audience little more than tales of sex, bathroom humour and slasher films named after holidays, along came this little gem from director Garry Marshall about a young man trying to find his place in the world between the middle and upper-classes. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : ''When I was eighteen, my father was ignorant on a great many subjects,'' Mark Twain once said, ''but by the time I was twenty-five, it was amazing the things the old man had learned.'' Here is a movie that condenses that process into one summer. The summer begins with a kid from a poor Brooklyn neighborhood taking a job as a cabana boy at a posh beach club out on Long Island. That's against the advice of his father, a plumber, who wants his son to get a job where he can learn about hard work. By the middle of the summer, the kid has started to idolize a flashy car dealer who's the champion of the gin rummy tables. By Labor Day, he has found out more about the car dealer than he wanted to know. And he has come to love and understand his father in a new way. more...
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