An American Summer

An American Summer

100 mins | Drama, Comedy | Feb. 24, 1991

In this youthful drama, Tom, a 14- year-old who's parents have just divorced, is abruptly uprooted from his wealthy Chicago home and sent to the strange land of LA to live in the far-out beach bungalow of his aunt, an aging hippie still stuck in a by-gone era. He is unhappy with the new arrangement and finds his new bohemian lifestyle strange and the activities of his new peers, stupid. His life begins to change a bit when he befriends a young surfer named Fin. At first he thinks of the fun-loving Fin as a real dolt, but later he admits he was wrong. Like the Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn characters on which they are loosely based, the two new friends soon find themselves having a series of adventures, some of them dangerous; by the summer's end, Tom finds himself wiser, accustomed to California, and a lot more grown up.

An American Summer

100 mins | Drama, Comedy | Feb. 24, 1991

An American Summer
In this youthful drama, Tom, a 14- year-old who's parents have just divorced, is abruptly uprooted from his wealthy Chicago home and sent to the strange land of LA to live in the far-out beach bungalow of his aunt, an aging hippie still stuck in a by-gone era. He is unhappy with the new arrangement and finds his new bohemian lifestyle strange and the activities of his new peers, stupid. His life begins to change a bit when he befriends a young surfer named Fin. At first he thinks of the fun-loving Fin as a real dolt, but later he admits he was wrong. Like the Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn characters on which they are loosely based, the two new friends soon find themselves having a series of adventures, some of them dangerous; by the summer's end, Tom finds himself wiser, accustomed to California, and a lot more grown up.
IMDb rating 5.4
Producers American Summer, Boss, SVS Films
Original title An American Summer
Directors James Slocum
Writers James Slocum

Cast

Brian Austin Green

as Charles 'Fin' Findley

Michael Landes

as Tom Travis

Brian Krause

as Joey

Wayne Pére

as Rockman

Barrett Sherwood

as Surfer / Beach Bum

Chance Boyer

as Forgot

Tony Crane

as Bo

Sherrié Austin

as Cari

Amber Susa

as Traci

Karen Teliha

as Bag Lady