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Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (2021)

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Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
Movie
6.8/10on IMDb
Released
A boy who writes haiku and a girl who hides her smile meet during summer and help search for a record somebody remembers. Its quieter comedy gives shy people a reason to be out in town together without having to turn them into entirely different people.
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Summer Days with Coo (2007)

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Summer Days with Coo
Movie
7.4/10on IMDb
Released
Koichi brings home a creature from Japanese folklore just before a summer that can no longer stay ordinary. The family has to decide what it owes their guest as other people become curious. Choose the animated film for a friendship with a more wistful edge.
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24

Dazed and Confused (1993)

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Dazed and Confused
Movie
7.6/10on IMDb
Released
School lets out and one Texas night stretches into a test of loyalties, with incoming freshmen and graduating kids at different ends of it. The humor comes from seeing who treats the old rituals as inevitable and who tries to get through the night differently.
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25

The Wackness (2008)

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The Wackness
Movie
6.9/10on IMDb
Released
Luke's summer before college turns into an unlikely set of conversations with a therapist in New York. The movie gives as much time to grieving, bad judgment and a first real disappointment as it does to its jokes and period music.
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26

The Last Summer (2019)

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The Last Summer
Movie
5.6/10on IMDb
Released
Just before college, a group of young Chicago friends have time to fall for people, make poor choices, and discover what they'll miss. Its parallel stories offer different answers to the idea that a summer has to settle the rest of your life.
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27

Luca (2021)

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Luca
Movie
7.4/10on IMDb
Released
Luca and Alberto can spend the summer in town as long as nobody sees what getting wet does to them. The secret gives an everyday race and a quarrel between friends consequences, while the seaside setting keeps it light.
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28

The Parent Trap (1998)

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The Parent Trap
Movie
6.7/10on IMDb
Released
At camp, two rivals look at each other long enough to learn why they look so alike. In the 1998 version with Lindsay Lohan, their switch lets them see the families they grew up missing and gives the summer prank a reason to keep moving.
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29

The Parent Trap (1961)

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The Parent Trap
Movie
7.2/10on IMDb
Released
The Hayley Mills version starts with Sharon and Susan turning a camp feud into a truce after recognizing what the adults kept from them. Choose it for the longer payoff of the family switch and the way each girl has to adjust to living in the other's place.
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30

The Baby-Sitters Club (1995)

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The Baby-Sitters Club
Movie
5.7/10on IMDb
Released
Kristy and her friends take on a day camp and discover the difference between babysitting and organizing an entire summer. It's an affectionate choice if you'd like a neighborhood comedy where the kids keep the enterprise going around their own family problems.
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31

Aquamarine (2006)

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Aquamarine
Movie
5.5/10on IMDb
Released
Two friends discover a mermaid while their summer together is under a deadline. The magic makes an easy beach comedy, and the approaching goodbye gives the two human girls an actual reason to reconsider how they depend on each other.
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32

The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)

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The Lizzie McGuire Movie
Movie
5.6/10on IMDb
Released
A trip to Rome after junior high gives Lizzie the opportunity to pretend she is someone with much more experience in front of a crowd. Its mix-ups make sense for a character learning what fame can ask her to ignore.
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33

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)

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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Movie
6.5/10on IMDb
Released
The friends split up for the summer and send a pair of jeans around to keep in touch. The clothing is a simple device for showing how different their problems are. Expect very funny moments alongside stories about loss, family and first love.
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34

High School Musical 2 (2007)

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High School Musical 2
Movie
5.3/10on IMDb
Released
A country-club summer job leaves Troy choosing how to handle attention and how to treat the people he arrived with. The songs and pool setting make it a good musical take on working in a place that lets one kid look more important than another.
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35

Camp Rock (2008)

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Camp Rock
Movie
5.3/10on IMDb
Released
Mitchie wants to fit in at music camp and makes it harder by misrepresenting how she got there. The rehearsals and performances give the false story an end point. Choose this when you want the kids to sing their way through an embarrassing summer.
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Camp Rock 3 (2026)

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Camp Rock 3
Movie
5.1/10on IMDb
Released
Connect 3 needs an opening act and comes back to camp to find one. Watching the campers decide how much to risk for a slot gives this sequel a different reason for the old friends and teammates to collide.
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Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010)

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Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam
Movie
5.3/10on IMDb
Released
A new camp nearby means the original group has something to prove while they are still settling old differences. Try it for the version of summer competition that asks the kids to defend why they like their own camp.
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38

Teen Beach Movie (2013)

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Teen Beach Movie
Movie
6.0/10on IMDb
Released
Mack's summer plans change when a wave sends her and Brady into an old beach musical. The jokes get sharper when the film's rehearsed romance falls out of place and Mack has to decide how much she wants to fix for other people.
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Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 4: Dawn of the Vampires (2025)

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Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 4: Dawn of the Vampires
Movie
5.5/10on IMDb
Released
A summer road trip turns into a counseling job amid a feud. Nova and Victor's choices give the younger campers a reason to test what they've been told about one another while the older couple tries to keep the camp working.
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Summer Wars (2009)

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Summer Wars
Movie
7.4/10on IMDb
Released
A summer visit presents Kenji as a pretend boyfriend just before a virtual crisis makes it much harder to leave the family gathering. Pick it for an animated comedy where a teen's awkward lie gets tangled up in something much bigger than a lost weekend.
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One Crazy Summer (1986)

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One Crazy Summer
Movie
6.4/10on IMDb
Released
Hoops goes to Nantucket for the summer and spends longer helping his new friends than he does following his original plan. It is a loose cartoon of a beach-town comedy with room for young people deciding which cause is worth messing up a vacation.
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42

Summer School (1987)

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Summer School
Movie
6.6/10on IMDb
Released
The students get instructions from a gym teacher who never wanted to teach summer school. The fact that neither side wants to be in the room gives the odd compromises and little successes more comic force than a simple class-clown story.
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