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Adventureland (2009)
6.8/10on IMDb
Released
James takes a summer job at an amusement park when his other plans fall through. The booth games, slow shifts, and crushes make it a good watch if you want people learning how to work together while everybody is pretending this job is temporary.
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The Way Way Back (2013)
7.4/10on IMDb
Released
Duncan finds a place to go when the beach house stops feeling like a vacation. At the water park, a worker who sees how little room Duncan gets at home brings him into the daily chaos. It has a hard family situation in view even when the park scenes are funny.
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Dìdi (弟弟) (2024)
7.3/10on IMDb
Released
Chris uses his last summer before high school to practice filming skateboarders, talking to girls, and deciding which version of himself his new friends should meet. The familiar embarrassment comes from watching him get one part right and make the next part worse.
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Snack Shack (2024)
7.0/10on IMDb
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Two friends take over a swimming pool snack stand and treat it as their big break. The business and their friendship both get harder to run once they have to impress the same people. Pick it if you'd like a summer-job comedy with a little sadness behind the hustle.
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American Graffiti (1973)
7.4/10on IMDb
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A final summer night in 1962 sends friends out cruising while a couple of them are still unsure whether to leave for college. The cars and radio keep the night moving even when the conversations get stuck. It is a good choice for a comedy where leaving town becomes the hardest decision.
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The Sandlot (1993)
7.8/10on IMDb
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Scotty has a whole summer to figure out the local baseball game, and one lost ball turns it into an ordeal. The nicknames and the boys' exaggerated stories make it feel as much like learning to belong as learning to play.
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The Kings of Summer (2013)
7.1/10on IMDb
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Joe, Patrick, and Biaggio build the summer getaway their parents didn't agree to. Their homemade house in the woods is fun to watch come together, and the things they didn't plan for gradually reveal why getting away was only the beginning.
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Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
7.7/10on IMDb
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Sam and Suzy make a summer escape on a New England island, leaving the adults to reorganize the trip around finding them. Choose it for young people who take their own plans seriously and a very orderly world that keeps getting in their way.
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Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
6.5/10on IMDb
Released
The camp is nearly over, which makes the counselors' last chance at romance or a talent-show triumph feel more urgent than it should. Choose this for an absurd send-up that puts every camp rivalry and crush on the same day.
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Meatballs (1979)
6.2/10on IMDb
Released
Rudy doesn't begin summer camp ready to make friends or win a race. His scenes with counselor Tripper give the pranks and camp rivalry a warm counterweight. The humor is broad and distinctly of its era.
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Now and Then (1995)
6.8/10on IMDb
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Four friends remember the summer they tried to solve a local mystery and found out a bit more about their own families. The back-and-forth with their adult lives can make the jokes and dares hit differently if you've ever gone home with an old friend.
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The Inkwell (1994)
6.3/10on IMDb
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Drew goes to Martha's Vineyard for the summer and finds a community with its own expectations about what he ought to become. The trip gives him space to try out confidence, and the adults around him give him several kinds of life to compare.
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The Flamingo Kid (1984)
6.2/10on IMDb
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Jeffrey gets a summer job at a beach club and starts thinking someone else's career might be easier to like than the one expected at home. The setting gives him a chance to watch how polished adults act when the people serving them can hear everything.
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Camp Nowhere (1994)
6.1/10on IMDb
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The kids decide to invent the camp they actually want to attend. The comedy starts once they have to maintain the story for their parents and deal with the pleasures and problems of a summer they organized themselves.
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mid90s (2018)
7.4/10on IMDb
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Stevie finds friends at a skate shop during a Los Angeles summer. The gap between what he hopes their approval will solve and what still waits at home gives the funny attempts to fit in a rougher finish.
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Crooklyn (1994)
7.1/10on IMDb
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Troy has siblings, neighbors and adults who share the same Brooklyn block in different ways. The film gives her a summer's worth of comic observations and family arguments before asking her to make sense of harder changes. It is a mix of warmth and grief.
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Little Darlings (1980)
6.5/10on IMDb
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At camp, two teenagers from quite different backgrounds get pushed into treating intimacy like a competition. The movie is frank about what the dare does to them, and more interested in their choices and friendship than whether either can claim to have won.
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Heavyweights (1995)
6.6/10on IMDb
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A summer with friends changes when an overbearing new owner starts running the camp like a commercial. Its sharpest jokes are at the expense of the supposed expert, and the kids get to decide more about their summer than he expects.
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Theater Camp (2023)
6.9/10on IMDb
Released
The campers have a show to put on at the same time the adults are trying to save their theater camp. Try it for mockumentary embarrassment, and for young performers who have more focus about what they came to do than some of the people in charge.
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Camp (2003)
6.2/10on IMDb
Released
A performing-arts camp gives the teenagers in this ensemble a place to try roles they don't get at home. Rivalries over parts and the funny self-importance of a rehearsal can sit beside a serious search for people who understand them.
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The To Do List (2013)
5.8/10on IMDb
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Brandy is determined to use the summer before college to catch up on experiences she thinks she's supposed to have had. Her impulse to turn everything into a list drives the awkward comedy. Expect a frank, bawdy story about expectations rather than a gentle romance.
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