The Last Day of Summer
(1984)
Country: UK
Genre: Drama
Synopsis
Last Day of Summer is based on a short story written by Ian McEwan in his book First Love, Last Rites.The film is about the close friendship that developed between Jenny, a nanny (or was she a tutor?) and her young charge Tom during a school summer holiday. It has a pleasing, private quality - that of letting you into a secret world shared only by the two characters. It's the end of the summer and it's Jenny and Tom's last day together. The pair go out onto a lake in a small rowing boat. There's laughter that the two have shared throughout, but it now becomes obvious that outside their guardian/ward relationship Jenny is desperately lonely - inadequate, even. The laughter turns into horrifically violent sobbing, and disaster as the boat capsizes. Tom swims around looking for Jenny, but she's gone. She doesn't want to be saved.It was like a fairy tale gone bad. The realisation that beyond the relationship the two characters shared was a nasty world is also striking.
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8 / 10 Good film with the beautiful Graham McGrath. He was a notable British child actor of the 1980s who was also good in 'Lent'.
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9 / 10 As most of the members know, I've been wanting and waiting to see this gem of a film almost since I joined this site! WOW Graham was very impressive! his screen presence was captivating! I also have Lent in my Que and can't wait to see it. Now that I own this movie, I can watch it over and over, any time I need a Graham fix! This movie is the ultimate boy movie in my opinion. 10/10
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