Summer Days, Summer Nights

Summer Days, Summer Nights

The season of endless possibilities.

2018103 min5.7 / 10

A nostalgic, character-driven ensemble piece about working-class youth navigating love and uncertainty during a transformative summer in 1980s Long Island.

On the south shore of Long Island in the summer of 1982, a group of working-class teenagers and 20-somethings work their summer jobs, fall in and out of love, and wrestle with what the future holds when the summer ends and the real world beckons.

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