Review of Summer Lovers (1982) by Sam P — 23 Jul 2007

Before I ever was introduced to sex, I got to see this eye-opening movie about a beautiful couple spending a summer in Greece. Peter Gallagher is great as the Greek-American who begins to realize that he has been missing out on something with his girlfriend, while Daryl Hannah is just okay as the repressed girlfriend who begins to break out her shell (seeing a young nude Hannah was worth price of admission btw). However, the movie is very flawed and even the shocking lifestyle (which was shocking to me when I saw it when I was in like grade 9 and didn't know anybetter) is almost normal (with Hollywood portraying lesbian sex as the new norm nowadays).

Overall, it is a curio to see two stars before they were popular and the best line of the movie is when Daryl Hannah's character Cathy tell her boyfriend that she dreamt that she was a mermaid, which is a precursor to her role in Splash two years later.