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2000

Directed by Robert Wise

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Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick, a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly against his slacker nephew Stanley who lives behind the shop. Without telling his uncle, Stanley agrees to put up a needy city kid for the summer as part of a charity program run by rich debutante Gloria. Abel immediately vetoes the plan, but it is too late. The kid, young Herman Washington, is already on his way...

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Cast

Peter Falk Andrew McCarthy Nastassja Kinski Ruby Dee Aaron Meeks Gillian Barber Lillian Carlson Keith Martin Gordey Ingrid Torrance Rydyr Morse Ty Olsson Gregor Trpin Alvin Sanders Henry O. Watson Gavin Bennett Anthony Quao

DirectorDirector

Robert Wise

WriterWriter

Rod Serling

CastingCasting

Sid Kozak Penny Ellars

EditorEditor

Jack Hofstra

CinematographyCinematography

Albert J. Dunk

Assistant DirectorsAsst. Directors

Pete Whyte Patrick Weir

Executive ProducersExec. Producers

Renée Valente Robert Halmi Jr.

LightingLighting

Einar Hansen

Camera OperatorCamera Operator

Harvey LaRocque

Production DesignProduction Design

Andrew Deskin

Set DecorationSet Decoration

Shannon Murphy Raul Casillas

Special EffectsSpecial Effects

Darren Marcoux

StuntsStunts

Ernie Jackson

ComposerComposer

Cynthia Millar

SoundSound

Tim Richardson James Bolt Christian P. Minkler Tim Gomillion Anthony Mazzei Bruce Tanis Mike Babcock John Edwards-Younger Zeke Richardson Dale W. Perry Paul Holzborn

Costume DesignCostume Design

Cynthia Summers

MakeupMakeup

Joan Isaacson

HairstylingHairstyling

Michael Pachal

Studios

Hallmark Entertainment Showtime Pictures Inc.

Country

USA

Language

English

Alternative Titles

A Storm in Summer - Temporale d'estate, Viharos vakáció, Sommer der Freundschaft, Летний шторм, Letní bouře, Tempestade de Verão

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TV Movie Drama

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  • Review by Dan ‘s Litter Box ★★★★

    Watched this TV Movie (which I already saw a week ago) with my mom this time. She loved it. Her tears not only moved me enough to tear up a little bit myself but to bump it up also.

    Should be checked out; www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDdN-tcYLGQ&t=1248s

  • Review by Dan ‘s Litter Box ★★★½

    Columbo looks after a kid. If that doesn't make you go "Aww," then clearly you need to watch more of that detective show.

    Cute curio in which Robert Wise came out of retirement for one last trip in the director's chair, helming a script from the late Rod Serling of "Twilight Zone" fame. Nothing fantastical happens here, but it's filled with heavy monologues, and sweeping messages about prejudice that you could find in many a travel to the fifth dimension.

    Just as some real conflict begins though, it just peters out and decides to wrap itself upright when a storm does indeed come in summer. Sweet overall though.

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDdN-tcYLGQ&t=1232s

  • Review by Luka ★★½

    It's mindboggling to me that Robert Wise, who edited Citizen Kane (let's not mention the other one!) also made a movie within my lifetime! Sure, it's a mediocre TV movie, but I really admire people who just don't wanna stop! I don't ever wanna stop either if I get there either!

  • Review by DiaDaily ★½ 1

    This movie should not have been made.
    Based on a 1970 script by Rod Sterling, i think its racial politics would have been dated and naive even at the time. Sterling has always struck me as a bit simplistic and moralizing (This is probably massively unfair (tho when have I ever been fair)), which is fine for a 23min high concept episode of television, but absolutely painful when stretched to 98 minutes.
    The story of a innercity Black child and an old Jewish man who come to be friends and understand each other because they've both faced bigotry is.... sweet... If only we all had fishing poles and chocolate sodas! (Tho also a rich white lady says basically the same…

  • Review by AstaCharles ★½

    The nifty special features include filmographies for some of the cast. The release year of this 2000 film is given inconsistently (1997 for Falk; 1999 for McCarthy and Dee). And that's about right.
    I'm left with questions, including:
    - How did this come to be?
    - Who thought this was a good idea?
    - Was this a half hour Serling screenplay and Bob Wise just decided to extend it to 98 minutes by staying on people's faces for entirely too long?
    - Is this where Hallmark movies jumped the shark, or are all Hallmark movies this bad and I didn't notice because I was a kid?
    - Is pastrami really Jewish, the 1/4 Italian-American vegetarian asks?
    - Is the kid going to try pastrami when he gets back to NYC?
    - Did most kids only take one play outfit and one fancy outfit on vacation in 1969?
    - Why?

  • Review by JJ ★★★½

    Heartwarming goodness

  • Review by 🌟 audrey 🌟 ★★½

    It was surreal to see Peter Falk and Andrew McCarthy in the same movie and I'm still upset that McCarthy had like two scenes because he and Falk had the best chemistry out of everyone in this whole film! Also he was slaying the '60s looks.

    This was just ok, I felt like it was the safest way to tell the story and leant too much on cliches. It was hard to get behind the relationship between Falk and Aaron Meeks' characters because they spent most of the runtime arguing and the bonding scenes came way too late and seemingly out of nowhere.

    I have to compare this to Marvin and Tige, one of my favorite films in this genre,…

  • Review by optiMSTie ★★★★

    I'm a simple man.

    I watch a Peter Falk movie, I enjoy the hell out of it*.

    *offer not valid for Corky Romano

  • Review by Martina Gonzalez ★★★½

    Una pelicula simple, con un mensaje claro y conciso pero vigente aun hoy, a más de 20 años de su estreno.
    De desarrollo rápido y ligero, sin momentos densos ni escenas que dispersen la atención del espectador, es un filme que se deja ver con facilidad y se presta para ser repetido cuando se busque disfrutar de una historia adorable y conmovedora sobre la amistad y los prejuicios.

    Visualmente es una joya, con fotografía simple pero que transmite todo lo que busca. Podrías mirarla en cualquier estación del año pero vas a sentirte por un rato en un pueblito estadounidense disfrutando de unas vacaciones de verano que nunca tuviste, vas a sentir que pescas en un lago en la decada del 60. Eso para mi lo vale todo.

    Buena peli de tarde dominguera.

  • Review by Chris Webb ★★★

    "Kid's name is Washington."
    "As in George?"
    "Not according to this. As in...Booker T."

    Just your average Peter Falk starring, Rod Serling written, Robert Wise directed Hallmark movie.

  • Review by Noel Kirkpatrick ★½

    Like Stanley Donen, Robert Wise's final film is a made-for-TV movie. In Wise's case, it's a 2000 Hallmark Entertainment-produced, Showtime-aired adaptation of a Rod Serling script from 1970 that has been basically unchanged.

    Peter Falk plays grumpy deli owner Abe Shaddick whose layabout nephew Stanley (Andrew McCarthy) signs up to host Herman, a Black kid from New York City (Aaron Meeks) for two weeks, because, well, and who could blame him?, Nastassja Kinski bat her eyelashes at him at the local upstate New York country club. Stanley heads off to Atlantic City for a (very long) job interview at a topless bar and leaves Abe to look after Herman.

    You can already see where this is going, I'm sure: Everyone…

  • Review by davvvd ★★½

    Bingu category: A deceased "Best Director" winner's last film

    Last movie directed by Robert Wise before his death, and written by Rod Serling of Twilight Zone fame.

    Its politics are a little bit of a liberal cliche (a victim fighting back is just as bad) but it's at least a good meditation on the pointlessness of war. Even in low budget cheesy TV movie context, Peter Falk doesn't hold back a great performance. Everyone else is pretty stilted and wooden.

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