Indian Summer (1993 film)

Indian Summer - A wild week among friends ( Original: Indian Summer ) is an American comedy - drama directed by Mike Binder from the year 1993.

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After the six friends Jamie, Matthew, Jennifer, Bradley, Kelly, Beth and Jack 1972 had a memorable summer at summer camp Camp Tamakwa the Natural Park Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada, you're invited again almost 20 years later by Lou Hander, there a to spend a week. Especially that Jack Belston appear surprising for most, he was once the only camp visitors, Lou had to send home early. But he is well received by all and is allowed to attend this week, when Lou the rules. He leads the entire group as he once led his children. After the first swim test, which is carried out against the will of all, all have received the suitability to be allowed on the boat, in which the group comes only once closer and maintains about their lives and what has become of them all.

Lou says that he wants to spend a summer camp for the last time with the children of his former " golden generation " his last week after 43 years. He has found that he has lost contact with the children, and now wants to close the camp. The result is the idea that someone take over the camp and should keep Lou as silent partner. But no one is really to implement this idea.

Jack tells Beth the story of the African-American Sam, who was once hired as a camp supervisor, but was sent by Lou, detected the error on the wrong skin color, back home. Although he paid him a week's wages, but he could easily afford to have a black supervisor in white summer camp not. And exactly on this story Lou was once accosted by Jack, because Lou always preaches that all men are equal. But Jack could not understand that Lou a black man so treated, so he stole the most valuable out of frustration Lou's possession, the trophy of a boxing championship at Michigan State University and hid it until today. Lou later explained to Jack that he never directly from the camp should throw and that he would one day undo, namely, to whom he sent back Sam again because of his skin color. He should not have to play God, but Sam should make his own experiences in a pure white camp.

Jack and Lou conclude their peace and Lou gets back his trophy. Meanwhile, Jack and Beth have come so close that they decide to take over the camp of Lou and carry on alone.

Criticism

The film received mixed reviews. So counted the website RottenTomatoes of 17 evaluated 11 professional reviews positive, corresponding to a value of 65%. Also by the general public, the film was received with above-average reactions simultaneously evaluated for 60 % of 6426 users the film positive. This in turn is from the online film archive IMDb, another platform, can submit their film reviews on the normal users, confirmed, because there gave 2,860 users the film on average 6.2 out of 10 possible points. (As of December 18, 2011 )

"Indian Summer is a mishmash of mediocre formulas. Although there are several good comedy sequences, the unbalanced humor the main weaknesses of the act can not disguise. The script that relies on highly conflicts can present us no credible characters. "

"This is a story that is more interested in the tone and mood than great turning points. The prevailing mood of the film is warm and gentle. There are no really bad people or terrible events. "

"Indian Summer, written and directed by Mike Binder, is a decent acting and extremely mild romantic comedy in which one believes that one would have already seen them, even though you did not do that. "

" An episodic scale, carried by good performers film, which can sometimes cheerful, sometimes contemplative happen to the lives of its protagonists Revue"

Background

The film deals with semibiografisch the stories that Mike Binder once lived in this real existing ' Camp Tamakwa ". Both Unca Lou, named after the real Unca Lou, who once founded the camp, and the two figures Matt and Brad who operate a Canadian clothing company, they have a real role models. Even the director Sam Raimi once spent a summer as a child in this camp.

Publication

After the film has grossed about 14 million dollars at the box office since its U.S. theatrical release on 23 April 1993, he was released in Germany on 30 September 1993 directly to VHS.

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