Grease or Dirty Dancing. – Maria Baratta
Mama Mia. – Sue Busch
Summer Rental. John Candy was amazing! – Jen Couchoud
Not to be pretentious, but a French movie, Claire’s Knee from 1970. In second place is Swedish director Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night from 1955. Pretentiousness aside, Dazed & Confused, a movie that takes place on the last day of school in 1976. As Mathew McConaughey’s character so famously says in that movie, “Alright, alright, alright.” – Scott Cullen
I’m a big baseball fan, so I don’t know if these are my favorites, but Bull Durham and Major League are movies I like and have always associated with summer. – Mike Gianella
Jaws. – Kathie Chaikin, Sara del Castillo, John Fowler, Sandee Steinberg, Dan Tuft
American Graffiti, Some Like It Hot, and Miss Congeniality (I laugh at so many lines every time!). – Barbara Drew
I’ve always preferred live theatre over cinema, but I’ve lost so much of my hearing that both theatre and cinema trips have become rare events for me. I would like to see The Odyssey, but it’s three hours with no bathroom breaks. – Michael Howe-Smith
Lawrence of Arabia; it was very warm! – Andrew Kidd
Beaches. – Dianne Kidd-Ross
Since I came of age in the 80’s and 90’s, my formative years were defined by the summer blockbusters that ramped up every year. The peak of the escalation (for me, at least) came in the summer of 1996 when Independence Day arrived in theaters. Is it my favorite movie? No. Is it a great movie? I can definitely listen to arguments against it. But was it fun that summer? Heck yeah. And it left an indelible impact on me after seeing it many, many times that year in the theater and everywhere else as soon as it came out on DVD. It’s a movie I can only watch in the summer, the same way I can’t watch Christmas movies out of that season. And, in case Jakob actually reads this, no, Die Hard is NOT a Christmas movie. – Chris Marietti
Dirty Dancing – Lynne Molnar
Two for the Road with Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney. – Anne Sears
Goodbye Columbus (1969) starring Ali MacGraw and Richard Benjamin. – Jane Root
I watched the Michael Jackson movie and was entertained. – Steve Saddlemire
Casablanca. Since my teens (when I had a poster of the airport scene hanging in my room), I have been enamored with this movie and saw it on the “big screen” a few years ago. A close runner-up is The Blues Brothers, which is great fun with a ton of cliché lines and great music. Though these are not summer scene movies, I equate them with “summer stock.” – Joe Schenk
Anything about the ocean. – Lynda Shapiro
Field of Dreams – Roger Shapiro
Stand By Me (the Stephen King story). Adolescent boy brotherhood tale that reminds me of childhood adventures. – David Thomas