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    Apr 25, 2005, 12:11 PM
    Title: Last Day of Summer - 1984
    This was a British Movie that seemed to make quite a splash in '84. Someone asked me about it last week and I can't find anything on it except that Graham McGrath played the main character. Anyone have a synopsis on the movie? Also, is it available anywhere?
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    Apr 26, 2005, 04:16 AM
    Last Day Of Summer
    Year made: 1983
    Country: United Kingdom
    Duration: 55 minutes.
    Print: Colour

    Adapted by Ian McEwan from one of his own stories, this is a film of moods, overheard indistinct voices, slowed hypnotic time, and particularly a troubling sense of false security and impending tragedy. In a pot-addled Thames-side commune, Tom, a 12-year-old orphan (Graham McGrath), is befriended by Jenny, a cheerful, overweight ex-teacher (Annette Badland, excellent), who derives a passive contentment from attending to his conventional needs (Tom likes to go to school in uniform). Their affecting idyll is played out chiefly in Tom's rowing boat on the deceptively passive river at the end of a very filmic English summer.

    It is available on DVD
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    Apr 26, 2005, 05:40 AM
    Thanks
    Thanks for your response. That is the film we were interested. However, I've had no luck finding it on DVD. I'll keep looking though. Thanks again.
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    May 3, 2005, 07:25 AM
    ZroHero -- Where did you locate the DVD?
    I've exhaustively searched the "net" and can't locate any DVD or VHS copies of this movie. You indicated in your reply that it was available on DVD. Where should I go to find it?
    Thanks, PRC
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    May 4, 2005, 09:15 AM
    Sorry
    Sorry... but the site where I found the information for you just said that there was a DVD available. It didn't say where. Good Luck. :(
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    May 4, 2005, 10:41 AM
    Thanks -- I'll keep looking
    Again - it appears that if it is out there, it will be an auction site like Ebay.

    Thanks,
    PRC
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    Jun 4, 2005, 11:44 AM
    I have this film on video
    I have an old copy of this film on video. I taped it off the TV when it was first aired. I haven't watched it in many years but I remember that it was very good. I am going to go through my tapes and find it and hope that it is still in watchable condition. I'll let you know. :o
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    Jun 4, 2005, 03:37 PM
    Last Day Of Summer
    COOL :cool:
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    Jun 5, 2005, 07:37 AM
    I dug the video out today and it is still watchable although it is a very old tape and showing signs of it's age. The film was as I remembered it - very atmospheric. ;)

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