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Overview

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7.7/10   2,305 votes
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Director:
David Lean
Writers:
H.E. Bates (screenplay) &
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Release Date:
14 August 1955 (Japan) more
Genre:
Romance | Drama more
Tagline:
It Happens to Hepburn - It Happens in Venice! more
Plot:
A lonely American woman unexpectedly finds romance in Venice, Italy. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(6 articles)
DVD: Review: Hobson’s Choice
 (From The AV Club. 24 February 2009, 10:00 PM, PST)

From 1922-1979: Get Your Film School Starter Pack Now
 (From Rope Of Silicon. 23 November 2008, 10:07 PM, PST)

User Comments:
Fragile bittersweet romance amid gorgeous Italian settings... more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Katharine Hepburn ... Jane Hudson
Rossano Brazzi ... Renato de Rossi
Isa Miranda ... Signora Fiorini

Darren McGavin ... Eddie Yaeger
Mari Aldon ... Phyl Yaeger
Jane Rose ... Mrs. McIlhenny
MacDonald Parke ... Mr. McIlhenny
Jeremy Spenser ... Vito de Rossi
Gaetano Autiero ... Mauro
Virginia Simeon ... Giovanna
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Summer Madness (UK)
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Runtime:
UK:99 min | USA:100 min | Argentina:102 min | West Germany:100 min
Country:
UK | USA
Language:
English | Italian
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)

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Trivia:
"Summertime" was an adaptation of the Broadway play "The Time of the Cuckoo" by Arthur Laurents. The stage production starred Shirley Booth and opened on Oct. 15, 1952 at the Empire Theatre in New York and ran for 263 performances. more
Goofs:
Continuity: The amount of wine in Di Rossi's glass when he first sees Jane - the glass is empty, then full. more
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Referenced in The Fisher King (1991) more

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27 out of 37 people found the following comment useful:-
Fragile bittersweet romance amid gorgeous Italian settings..., 3 June 2001
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Author: Neil Doyle from U.S.A.

"Summertime" is more of a mood piece than anything else. It captures the loneliness of a traveler in a foreign land, in this case a spinster who is hungry for love but too repressed to accept the love Rossano Brazzi offers. It has a bittersweet ending, appropriate for a thin story that sets the tone early on and never once makes us believe that Hepburn is going to find her true love in Venice.

The photography is gorgeous and must have had everyone heading for the nearest travel bureau for a tour of Italy when the film was released. The performances are all excellent--but the film belongs to Hepburn. She creates one of her most moving and truthful portraits--sensitively showing us what this woman feels as she watches others pairing off for affairs, alone and unable to really connect. The sexual mores of the 1950s permeate the film--the sexual revolution was just over the horizon but not yet evident.

One of Hepburn's most subtle, yet affecting performances. With David Lean's sensitive direction, the gorgeous photography and the evocative background music, "Summertime" will put you under the spell of its fragile romance. Easy to see why Brazzi was the ultimate continental charmer.

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