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Summer of '42, 1971
A Separate Peace, 1972
The Last Picture Show, 1971

All three of these are dramas set in the 1940s and 50s with intense character studies about youth, war and growing up. Great music. Two Oscars went to Last Picture Show out of 8 nominations. If you like good drama, memorable characters, great acting and sensitive romance movies with historical authenticity and style, you'll like these if you haven't seen them.

Summer of '42
Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's main worries are the when and how of getting laid, Hermie honestly falls in love with the older Dorothy, who's married to an army pilot. When her husband returns to the front, Hermie shyly approaches her and a summer romance with the older woman ensues.

A Separate Peace
Gene and Finny are two boys who are best friends living in 1943, at the height of World War II. The idea that the boys will most likely be drafted when they turn eighteen is surrounding them, and they are practically forced to live their lives to the fullest. The two boys attend the Devon School, which prepares them for military life that they will most likely be subjected to. The film begins with a narration by an older Gene, traveling back to Devon some years later. The thing he wishes most to see is the tree, which had a great effect on the boys' lives. The movie focuses on friendship, hatred and rivalry. Based on John Knowles novel.

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The Last Picture Show
In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the two pass their time the best way they know how -- with the movie house, basketball, and girls. Jacey is Duane's steady, wanted by every boy in school, and she knows it. Her daddy is rich and her mom is good looking and loose. It's the general consensus that whoever wins Jacey's heart will be set for life. But Anarene is dying a quiet death as folks head for the big cities to make their livings and raise their kids. The boys are torn between a future somewhere out there beyond the borders of town or making do with their inheritance of a run-down pool hall and a decrepit movie house -- the legacy of their friend and mentor, Sam the Lion. As high school graduation approaches, they learn some difficult lessons about love, loneliness, and jealousy. Then folks stop attending the second-run features at the movie house and the time comes for the last picture show. With the closure of the movie house, the boys feel that a stage of their lives is closing. They stand uneasily on the threshold of the rest of their lives. (The movie was adapted from the novel by Larry McMurtry).

See ya at the movies....
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vrUiCaCWLc"]YouTube- the last picture show[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSQCohESz1c"]YouTube- Summer of 42 - part 11 Final[/ame]