Summer of '42 (1971)
"In everyone's life there's a "Summer of '42""
ThumbScore
👍 77%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 78%
(RT: 78%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Jennifer O'Neill as Dorothy
Gary Grimes as Hermie
Jerry Houser as Oscy
Oliver Conant as Benjie
Katherine Allentuck as Aggie
Christopher Norris as Miriam
Lou Frizzell as Druggist
Walter Scott as Dorothy's Husband (uncredited)
Is Summer of '42 good?
Most people think so. 77% audience score, estimated from 166 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 78%.
Overview
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, whose husband is an army pilot recently sent to the battlefront of World War II. Wikipedia ↗
