MOVIEmeter
SEE RANK
Down 208 this week

My Summer of Love (2004)

6.8
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 6.8/10 from 11,901 users   Metascore: 82/100
Reviews: 93 user | 100 critic | 31 from Metacritic.com

In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. Over the summer season, the two young women discover they have much to teach one another, and much to explore together.

Director:

Watch Trailer
0Check in
0Share...

User Lists

Related lists from IMDb users

a list of 2366 titles created 4 months ago
 
a list of 10000 titles created 2 months ago
 
a list of 603 titles created 6 months ago
 
a list of 620 titles created 06 Jun 2011
 
a list of 196 titles created 26 Jun 2011
 

Connect with IMDb


Share this Rating

Title: My Summer of Love (2004)

My Summer of Love (2004) on IMDb 6.8/10

Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.

Take The Quiz!

Test your knowledge of My Summer of Love.
8 wins & 19 nominations. See more awards »

Videos

Photos

Learn more

People who liked this also liked... 

Cracks I (2009)
Drama | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.6/10 X  

A look at the lives and relationships among girls at an elite boarding school.

Director: Jordan Scott
Stars: Eva Green, Juno Temple, María Valverde
Drama | Romance | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.7/10 X  

A desperate love story between two young girls of extremely different social backgrounds who, unable to find a place for their love in the world they live in, are pushed to commit a crime.

Director: Lucía Puenzo
Stars: Inés Efron, Mariela Vitale, Pep Munné
Drama | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.8/10 X  

Kathryn makes a bet that her step-brother, Sebastian, won't be able to bed Annette (a virgin, who wants to wait until love). If he loses, Kathryn gets his Jaguar, if he wins, he gets Kathryn.

Director: Roger Kumble
Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon
Drama | Romance | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X  

Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo
Live Flesh (1997)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.4/10 X  

After leaving jail, Víctor is still in love with Elena, but she's married to the former cop -now basketball player- who became paralysed by a shot from Víctor's gun...

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal
Drama | Romance | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.2/10 X  

When a disgraced former college professor has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking secret about his own life that he has kept secret for 50 years.

Director: Robert Benton
Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris
Unfaithful (2002)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.6/10 X  

A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.

Director: Adrian Lyne
Stars: Diane Lane, Erik Per Sullivan, Richard Gere
Bitter Moon (1992)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.9/10 X  

British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson are sailing to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, and that night Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship's ... See full summary »

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant
Drama | Romance | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.4/10 X  

Set in the present-day San Fernando Valley, the project revolves around a delusional man who believes he's a cowboy and the relationship that he starts with a rebellious young woman.

Director: David Jacobson
Stars: Edward Norton, Evan Rachel Wood, David Morse
Comedy | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.8/10 X  

An office worker inadvertently becomes a hero after he saves a woman's life.

Director: Frank A. Cappello
Stars: Michael DeLuise, Christian Slater, Elisha Cuthbert
Drama | Romance | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.9/10 X  

A Frenchwoman tells her marital troubles to a man she mistakes for a psychiatrist, and soon they form an unusual relationship.

Director: Patrice Leconte
Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Fabrice Luchini, Michel Duchaussoy
Dead Ringers (1988)
Drama | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.3/10 X  

Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.

Director: David Cronenberg
Stars: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske
Edit

Cast

Complete credited cast:
...
...
...
...
Ricky
Michelle Byrne ...
Ricky's Wife
Paul Antony-Barber ...
Tamsin's Father
Lynette Edwards ...
Tamsin's Mother
Kathryn Sumner ...
Sadie
Edit

Storyline

A tale of obsession and deception, and the struggle for love and faith in a world where both seem impossible. The film charts the emotional and physical hothouse effects that bloom one summer for two young women: Mona, behind a spiky exterior, hides an untapped intelligence and a yearning for something beyond the emptiness of her daily life; Tamsin is well-educated, spoiled and cynical. Complete opposites, each is wary of the other's differences when they first meet, but this coolness soon melts into mutual fascination, amusement and attraction. Adding volatility is Mona's older brother Phil, who has renounced his criminal past for religious fervor - which he tries to impose upon his sister. Mona, however, is experiencing her own rapture. "We must never be parted," Tamsin intones to Mona but can Mona completely trust her? Written by Focus Features

Plot Summary | Add Synopsis

Taglines:

The most dangerous thing to want is more.


Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for sexuality, language and some drug use | See all certifications »

Parents Guide:

 »
Edit

Details

Country:

Language:

Release Date:

5 November 2004 (UK)  »

Also Known As:

Amor de Verão  »

Box Office

Budget:

£1,700,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$90,022 (USA) (17 June 2005)

Gross:

$992,238 (USA) (5 August 2005)
 »

Company Credits

Show detailed on  »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Color:

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1
See  »
Edit

Did You Know?

Trivia

Marcel Cerdan, the boxer, wasn't Édith Piaf's husband. He was her lover and the love of her life. He died in a plane crash and she never recovered from his death. She never killed anyone, let alone with a fork. See more »

Quotes

Tamsin: What's he making?
Mona: A cross. He's putting it up at the top of the hill to cleanse the valley of evil.
See more »

Connections

Featured in 2006 Glitter Awards (2006) See more »

Soundtracks

"Lovely Head"
Written by Goldfrapp and Will Gregory
Performed by Goldfrapp
Licensed courtesy of Mute Records
Copyright Warner Chappell Music Publishing Ltd
See more »

Frequently Asked Questions

This FAQ is empty. Add the first question.

User Reviews

 
A Very Good Drama About People
3 March 2006 | by (Troy, NY) – See all my reviews

I saw this movie in Albany, NY USA and I thought it was great. I admit, I went because the two young girls were super hot and lesbians are always sexy. But watching it, I really got to like the people in the story. It's not really a sexy movie, but it's a very good drama about people.

Mona, the working class girl, is so sexy and yet so vulnerable. She has no idea she's a beauty, or that she's stronger and more creative than the people around her. She thinks that being sophisticated means smoking and drinking and acting bored all the time. So when she meets Tamsin she is instantly captivated!

Tamsin is spoiled and rich, used to being adored. When the rough, but very sexy young working girl looks up at her with innocent admiration, cruel and shallow Tamsin thinks it might be amusing just to get her going for a bit. But pleasure soon leads to passion, out of control.

Both girls in this movie are superb, wonderful actresses. Mona could seem dim, but we get how smart she could be if she just woke up to the phony side of Tamsin. Tamsin could seem evil, but we get how lies and make believe are the only way she can get attention.

It's a lovely film, with only a couple of tiny flaws. I thought it was too easy for Mona's "boyfriend" to be just a selfish, fat lout. It's the kind of thing you always see in lesbian films, like the girl needs an "excuse" to find love with another woman. Why need an excuse? Also, I would have liked just a bit more on Tamsin's family -- do they know what she really is? Do they care? Just a hint or something at the end.

My theory about why American audiences didn't like this movie is about culture, but not just that Americans are dumb. Americans, when they watch "British" movies, expect to see dukes and duchesses, aristocrats, Jane Austen elegance. Just a couple of teens smoking and drinking doesn't look "British" to us.

You can't say Americans don't "like" British movies, but if you look at GOSFORD PARK and compare it to MY SUMMER OF LOVE you can see what I mean. I hated GOSFORD PARK, thought it was paper thin and sentimental, but it gave Americans the England they want -- aristocrats, servants, luxury, scandal.

See what I mean?


29 of 44 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you?

Message Boards

Recent Posts
100 things we learned from this movie... jenlouise
Did anyone else gasp at the end? jenlouise
i don't understand the ending yousux
do you think tamsin loved her? hollie-14
One of the most powerful scenes for me in My Summer of Love sparklesinoz
Did anyone else dislike Mona? caitlinette
Discuss My Summer of Love (2004) on the IMDb message boards »

Contribute to This Page

Create a character page for:
?