It’s still hot outside, but the pool is closing soon, and you notice the days aren’t as long as they were a few weeks ago. Autumn is bringing change, and whether it’s for good or bad, you can tell things will start feeling different soon. The end of summer has its own unique vibe… a liminal space in time where, just before the leaves turn and the temperature drops, your world is bathed in rays of gold for just a few weeks more.
Anyways, here is a selection of movies available at CCPL to check out that capture that end of summer feeling.
From Our Collection
1978) Rated PG
Romance/Drama ‧ 1h 34m
In 1910, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. A love triangle, a swarm of locusts, a hellish fire—Malick captures it all with dreamlike authenticity, creating at once a timeless American idyll and a gritty evocation of turn-of-the-century labor.
(2009) Rated R
Comedy/Romance ‧ 1h 47m
In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a ‘nowhere’ job at his local amusement park, only to find it’s the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
(1986) Rated R
Adventure/Thriller ‧ 1h 25m
After learning that a stranger has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon boys decide to go see the body. On the way, Gordie Lachance, Vern Tessio, Chris Chambers, and Teddy Duchamp encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, as they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys’ adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.
(1991) Rated R
Action/Thriller ‧ 2h 2m
In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send young agent Johnny Utah undercover at the beach to mix with the surfers and gather information.
(2001) Rated R
Comedy ‧ 1h 37m
The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It’s the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there’s still a summer’s worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA’s Skylab, which is hurtling toward Earth. All that, plus a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.
(2012) Rated PG-13
Romance/Comedy ‧ 1h 34m
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
