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Summer of '42 (1971)
One of the best coming-of-age films
The last line of the film says it all... the teenage angst, the melancholia that the movie leaves behind, the longing for something better, more fulfilling, yes, even happiness. For me, it left the same feelings that the last episode of the "Wonder Years" TV show did -- life went on without the two who could have been the loves of their lives. "I was never to see her again. Nor was I ever to learn what became of her. We were different then. Kids were different. It took us longer to understand the things we felt. Life is made up of small comings and goings. And for everything we take with us, there is something that we leave behind. In the summer of '42, we raided the Coast Guard station four times, we saw five movies, and had nine days of rain. Benji broke his watch, Oscy gave up the harmonica, and in a very special way, I lost Hermie forever."
Adventures in Paradise (1959)
Still in my imagination and in my heart...
I was in my late teens when I first started watching this show. And to this day I still have wonderful fantasies of sailing the Pacific with Gardner McKay on the Tiki.
Life has never been quite as wonderful as my imagination leads me to believe it was on this show. The music, the idea of being anyone, anywhere, doing anything adventurous, with friends, and time, and the ocean ....
One of these days I think I'll hop a plane to the Caribbean and get on one of those "windjammers".
And.. maybe I'll go out and get the DVD set - or will that spoil what's in my head and heart?