Almost Summer Summary
Director: Martin Davidson
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Bruno_Kirby was labelled an "overnight" star of the early 1990s thanks to such films as The_Freshman (90) and City_Slickers (91), but he'd been working since the late 1970s in both films and TV. The 1978 low budgeter Almost Summer top-bills Kirby as a "mover and shaker" high schooler who helps a nice-guy student, Darryl (John_Friedrich), run against his former girlfriend. Darryl resigns from the class presidency when he learns the election was fixed. But Kirby is popular enough to win the re-election, without the crooked political machinations of certain school administrators. Featured in the cast were several members of Hollywood's 1970s equivalent to the 1980s "brat pack", including Didi_Conn, Lee_Purcell and Tim_Matheson. The subtlety and perceptiveness of Almost Summer would be buried within a year by the onslaught of Animal_House and its many clones. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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