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Indian Summer | Year: 1993 Classification: Comedy Directed: - Mike Binder Actors/Actresses: - Matt Craven - Alan Arkin Very enjoyable and highly recommended Like many of the other reviewers I saw this movie in the early to mid 90's on either Showtime or HBO and really enjoyed it which is a little odd because normally I watch really dark comedies or horror movies. I probably liked it so much because it brought back memories of being at Boy Scout camp and borrowing the canoes to paddle over to the Girl Scout camp across the lake at night. I won't go into the plot because it's already been covered very well by the other reviewers. I will say that fans of horror movies might be interested that Sam Raimi of Evil Dead fame makes an appearance in the movie as the handyman Stick which is fitting since the first 2 Evil Dead movies contained references to Camp Tamakwa. Yes, the DVD is WIDESCREEN, not Fullscreen! I absolutely cherish this film. I own it on laserdisc in widescreen. Since it came out on DVD over a year ago, I must have passed it up over a dozen times in the stores because on the back of the package it says it is presented in butchered fullscreen. Well, it didn't say "butchered", but film lovers know that a pan-and-scan fullscreen presentation of a film shot in widescreen is butchered. So I read the recent review bemoaning the fact that the DVD is actually widescreen, and I thought I would buy it and take the chance. Sure enough, widescreen! Excellent! The daytime scenes in the film have an orange tint to them, but I believe that is true of the laserdisc as well, and may be the way they filmed it to give it the "warm" feeling of summer. Even the cover art has an orange tint. The sound could have been in 5.1, but as presented it is 2.0, which is actually quite fine given the predominantly dialogue nature of the film. If you ever went to summer camp as a kid, and now in your mid-life years wish you could capture some of it back, this charming drama/light comedy with an adult theme will have you hooked for life! Great movie, but BOOOOOOO to the DVD I saw this movie the first time back when I was in highschool and really liked it, and had actually nearly forgotten about it until I saw it, instantly remembered it, and bought it. What I didn't notice until I was home and had opened it was that it was Fullscreen. A minor setback, I thought. I figured I'd just return it for the widescreen version-- until I realized that there is no widescreen version. This is almost unheard of for the DVD medium. I can't think of a single movie I own that isn't widescreen (or any movie at all that isn't at least available in both formats). If Fullscreen doesn't bother you, you won't have any problem with this DVD, as the movie is really good. If you're like me however, you'll be disappointed when you realize that there is no Widescreen translation of this DVD yet. At least it was cheap. Buy Indian Summer at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Indian Summer Search with the Priority Search Engine on Indian Summer This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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