Summer Lovers (1982)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Randal Kleiser

Writer:

Randal Kleiser (writer)

Release Date:

16 July 1982 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

They Spent a Summer of Love - to the Sounds of 'Chicago'

Plot:

A young American couple go to the Greek islands for the summer and are dazzled by the beauty and the uninhibited people surrounding them...

Plot Keywords:

Tied To Bed | Female Nudity | Shirtless Male Bondage | Male Frontal Nudity | Hot Candle Wax

Cast

Peter Gallagher	...	Michael Pappas
Daryl Hannah	...	Cathy Featherstone
Valérie Quennessen	...	Lina (as Valerie Quennessen)
Barbara Rush	...	Jean Featherstone
Carole Cook	...	Barbara Foster
Hans van Tongeren	...	Jan Tolin
Lydia Lenossi	...	Aspa
Vladimiros Kiriakidis	...	Yorghos
Carlos Rodríguez Ramos	...	Cosmo
Rika Dialina	...	Monica
Andreas Filippides	...	Andreas (as Andreas Filippidis)
Peter Pye	...	Joe Saunders
Janis Benjamin	...	Trish Saunders
Victor T. Salant	...	John
Brigitte Perbandt	...	Anna
Henri Behar	...	Movie Director
Steven Fazekas	...	Bob
Jane Moder	...	Jane
Hilary Shepard	...	Camp Fire Girl (as Hillary Shapiro)
Nadia Fahmi	...	Camp Fire Girl
Richard Montgomery	...	Boy at Camp Fire
Ann Coleman	...	French Girl on Yacht
François Manceaux	...	Archeologist
Marilyn Giardino	...	Woman at Hotel
Stavros Kaplandis	...	Desk Clerk

Directed by
Randal Kleiser

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Randal Kleiser		writer

Produced by
Joel Dean	....	executive producer
Mike Moder	....	producer

Original Music by
Basil Poledouris

Cinematography by
Timothy Galfas

Film Editing by
Robert Gordon

Casting by
Barbara Claman
Eleanor Ross

Production Design by
Bruce Weintraub

Set Decoration by
Ann Coleman

Makeup Department
Katia Despotidou	....	makeup artist
Robert Redding	....	makeup artist
Garafalia Strataki	....	hair stylist
Jim Gillespie	....	key makeup artist (uncredited)

Production Management
Salvatore Billitteri	....	post-production supervisor
Michael S. Glick	....	supervising production manager
Aspa Lambrou	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Stavros Kaplanidis	....	second assistant director
Stavros Konstandarakos	....	second assistant director
Mike Moder	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Dimitris Plivouris	....	property master (as Mimis Plivouris)

Sound Department
Kevin F. Cleary	....	sound re-recording mixer
James Cox	....	sound effects (as Jim Cox)
Nikos Despotidis	....	sound mixer (as Nicos Despotidis)
Mimis Kimouliatis	....	boom operator (as Mimis Kimoliatis)
Dessie Markovsky	....	dialogue editor
William L. McCaughey	....	sound re-recording mixer (as William McCaughey)
Terry Porter	....	sound re-recording mixer
Emile Razpopov	....	sound effects editor
Howard S. Wollman	....	sound re-recording mixer (as Howard Wollman)
William Hooper	....	assistant sound editor (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Jeffrey Kleiser	....	special optical effects: EFX Unlimited (as Jeff Kleiser)
Andrea D'Amico	....	optical effects: EFX Unlimited (uncredited)

Stunts
Debbie Evans	....	stunt woman

Camera and Electrical Department
John Burke	....	gaffer (as Jack Burke)
Peter Lyons Collister	....	aerial photographer
Peter Lyons Collister	....	director of photography: second unit
Roger G. Jans	....	still photographer (as Roger Jans)
Sifis Koundouros	....	second assistant camera
Dimitris Papakonstadis	....	director of photography: Greece
Pernell Youngblood Tyus	....	first assistant camera (as Pernell Tyus)
Peter Wagner	....	key grip

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Ernest Misko	....	costume supervisor
Diana Yannapoulou	....	wardrobe

Editorial Department
Bill Berry	....	negative cutter
Dennis Galling	....	assistant editor
Dolly Gordon	....	associate editor (as Dolly Fendel Gordon)
Scott Hancock	....	assistant editor
Tom Shaffer	....	color timer
Takis Yannopoulos	....	assistant editor (as Takis Yannapoulos)

Music Department
Jim Cypherd	....	score recording engineer
Phil Davis	....	score synthesizer
Terri Fricon	....	music supervisor (as Terry Fricon)
Gary Jones	....	music supervisor
Rosalie Winkler Karalekas	....	music consultant
Leslie Whitfield	....	music editor
Thomas Vicari	....	score recordist: main titles (uncredited)

Transportation Department
Jeffrey R. Clark	....	transportation captain
Peter Forbes	....	driver
John Gott	....	driver

Other crew
Janis Benjamin	....	production coordinator
Amy Bloch	....	production assistant
Steven Fazekas	....	production assistant
Mark M. Frederick	....	production assistant
Jeff Freedman	....	merchandising coordinator
Marilyn Giardino	....	script supervisor
Diana Lambrinou	....	production secretary
Brian Lindquist	....	creative consultant
Victor T. Salant	....	auditor
Harry Stein	....	assistant to producer
Marc Wolff	....	helicopter pilot

Production Companies

• Filmways Pictures

Distributors

• Filmways Pictures (1982) (USA) (theatrical)
• MGM Home Entertainment (2003) (USA) (DVD)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (video)
• Orion Pictures Corporation
• Roadshow Home Video

Also Known As:

Threesome (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) (1998) | Australia:M | Canada:14A | Singapore:(Banned) | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:11 | UK:15 (original rating) (cut) | UK:18 (video rating) (1986) (uncut) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Crete, Greece

Company:

Filmways Pictures

Trivia:

Darryl Hannah's character remarks, "I use to dream I was a mermaid." Two years later Darryl Hannah starred as a mermaid in Splash (1984).

Goofs:

Continuity: Just before Michael views Lina with his binoculars there is a puff of cigarette smoke that passes him. But scenes of Michael just prior and after shows nobody around him and no cigarette in the ash tray.

Quotes:

Cathy Featherstone: I use to dream I was a mermaid.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The O.C.: The Accomplice (#2.10)" (2005)

Soundtrack:

Happy Birthday, Dear Lena

Probably not for you

Roger Ebert likes to say (paraphrased) that it's not what a movie's about, but rather how it goes about it. Often so, especially in retread after retread that go by every year, but with Summer Lovers it's the reverse, because there's really very little to compare it to. This is a film that struggles with limited (but attractive) talent, flamboyantly uneven direction and bad editing. What's worse, a film has to often use dialog in place of looks and feelings that take place and have meaning in a relationship, but that are lost to the observer, and the dialog here often fails.

But at the same time, Summer Lovers doesn't blink when looking into freedom of the body, and freedom in relationships. Some look at this as fantasy, but indeed there are a lot of people who have made the one-way trip down that rabbit hole and can understand what this film's really about.

I give it an E for Effort. I like it better for having failed in its ambition than having succeeded in a lesser attempt. It's definitely not for the uptight, but if you're sitting around some day in an expansive frame of mind, wondering if you're getting everything out of your life that you ought to, then maybe rent this one and have an enjoyable afternoon thinking about the possibilities.