Summer Fling |  | Director: David Keating
Actors: Catherine O'Hara, Jared Leto, Christina Ricci, Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Rea
Studio: Miramax
Category: DVD
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 46054
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DISD28939D
UPC: 786936206487
EAN: 0786936206487
ASIN: B00007K02H
Theatrical Release Date: April 10, 1998
Release Date: January 14, 2003
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About seventeen-year-old frankie who has just finished his school exams and is sure he has failed. In order to get his mind off his grades he focuses on girls. When a girl develops a crush on him the laughs are endless as he tries to figure out what to do next. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 03/01/2005 Starring: Gabriel Byrne Christina Ricci Run time: 103 minutes Rating: R
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 Original title on HBO was the Last of the HIgh Kings of Ireland March 27, 2009
Margaret A. Hickford (Spring, Texas)
or something like that. It was totally wonderful. I love this movie,
it showcased the behavior of Irish women so well, the temper, the love,
the passion, the drinking (yes, but not too much), the excited rants
and phrases so common to these very passionate people.
It also showed that not all Irish live in alleyways and homes with
dirt floors. I especially loved the scene when the son told his mother
he would marry a protestant, or a Jew or a mormon or whatever suited
him and that furthermore most of the people she admired and loved were
Protestant and had been living in America anyway. It was wonderfully
done movie, great scenery, and the actors played off of each other
brillantly. The coming of age part was not as important to me as the
cultural aspects of the movie. A very good movie for those looking for
coming of age, as well as those looking for a beautiful film with Irish
people.
Great feel good movie November 5, 2007
R. A. Johnson (California)
Summer Fling is wonderfully fun and entertaining. The kind of film you'll want to watch again and again and share with others. Outstanding work done by the cast, especially Catherine O'Hara and Jared Leto. Don't miss this one.
 Not Terrible, But It Could Have Been Better May 7, 2007
Timothy Kearney (Hull, MA United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Like many of the other reviewers, I saw this film under another title (LAST OF THE HIGH KINGS) and the other title was a bit more appropriate. SUMMER FLING gives the impression that the film is about a summer romance, and while a "fling" does occur in the film, it's not the major focal point, though perhaps it should be. Actually, it was somewhat difficult determining the film's focal point or whether it was a comedy with some dramatic moments or a drama with a few comedic references.
We meet in the film a young man named Frankie (Jared Leto) who has just finished taking exams which will determine his future. In Ireland grades on exams determine college choices and ultimately career, so this is a major burden for the seemingly naturally unmotivated young man. Rather than fret about the future, he decides to spend the summer avoiding the potential of limited opportunities and has a number of escapades with his friends. Frankie's offbeat friends, while not troublemakers, are going nowhere fast. We also see Frankie have a number of interactions with his family. He's from an eccentric family. His father is a traveling actor and his mother (played by Catherine O'Hara), once a famous stage personality, is at home raising the rather odd mix of children Frankie has as siblings. Frankie's mother wants him to take an interest in his heritage, claiming the family stems from Irish royalty. She vehemently hates Protestants even though as Frankie rightly claims, many of her heroes are Protestant. Frankie discovers the opposite sex, but it is with a Protestant and member of the Labor Party, neither of which please mother or the local priest. He also misses the opportunity to find first love with an American with Irish ancestry played by Christina Ricci.
The film may be guilty of having too many potentially great plotlines that could make a viewer want more, but ultimately the viewer gets less. Frankie's mother/son conflict could have been interesting, but instead it was rather one dimensional. As it stands, the mother is just an odd duck, Frankie a teen suffering under her control, but both are potentially so rich. The friends could be an interesting lot, but we really never meet them, or at least we don't get to know them with any degree of depth. The political and religious conflicts, so much a part of Ireland in 1977 touch the film, but again not with any depth. If the film had one major plotline: his attraction to a Protestant Labor Party member and the Irish American girl who love shim but he spurns would have been the strongest and most compelling story, with the other side plots story lines adding flavor, it would have made it a stronger film. Overall SUMMER FLING is not terrible, it just could have been better.
Sex and Clergy in Ireland. April 20, 2007
Michael Kerjman (The Earth)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I watched this movie on DVD titled "The Last of the High Kings"-and really missed a sense of a "politically correct"-style alteration.
A school-not-so-well-graduated-from Frankie waited a letter of acceptance at university, calculating days to the eventual post delivering, fooling around with other graduates, eccentric family and neighbors.
Of course, young handsome inexperienced male is a very target for sexually advanced females-both local and visiting, of whom loss of virginity initiated imminently both rage of mother's jealousy and some ill-conceived mimicry on priest's ubiquity.
Although young Leto is really good in this movie and at least three sequences- beach party, seduction of a virgin boy and boy's later description of this act - are really nice, Irish-British grass-roots affairs depicted briefly and long monologues leave a feeling of some boringness.
In general, this movie broadened my existing info of Ireland.
A good look at Ireland and Irish Mothers January 8, 2003
Ryan Kelly (Sacramento, California USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I was surprised to see a few reviewers on this site bashing the movie. I agree it has a slow pace to it, but the supurb acting by O'Hara makes it a memorable film. She should have gotten an academy award for this role.
I really enjoyed this film and I just bought a used copy. Don't expect a fast paced slapstick comedy and you won't be dissapointed.
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