Summer Days, Summer Nights

Summer Days, Summer Nights

The season of endless possibilities.

Directed by Edward Burns

Produced by Marlboro Road Gang Productions, Atlantic Pictures

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.

Questions people ask

  • Is Summer Days, Summer Nights violent? Barely. Less violent than 86% of films.

  • Is Summer Days, Summer Nights scary? Barely. Less frightening than 84% of films.

  • Is Summer Days, Summer Nights easy watching? Yes. More comforting than 82% of films.

  • Is Summer Days, Summer Nights sad? Somewhat. More sad than 70% of films.

  • Does Summer Days, Summer Nights end with hope? Somewhat. More hopeful than 65% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

12/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity16

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise8

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love13

How much audiences actually like it

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Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

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Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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