Today’s movie is a dramedy with a scene that happens on June 19. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
NOW AND THEN
Samantha, a writer, Roberta, a doctor, and Teeny, an actress return to their hometown to support Chrissy as she is about to give birth to her first child. Sam then flashes back to the year they were twelve. As children Sam was considered weird, Roberta was a tomboy, Teeny dreamed of fame and Chrissy was a sheltered child. The girls carry on a feud with four brothers named the Wormers. The girls’ summer plans include earning enough money to buy a treehouse from Sears. On June 19, 1970 [10:20 to 25:40] Sam convinces the girls to hold a séance in a graveyard in the hope of contacting the spirit of a dead boy buried there, only identified as “Dear Johnny”, but it is interrupted by a thunderstorm. They return and are stunned to find the gravestone of “Dear Johnny” has been cracked. The girls cycle all the way to a nearby town to look at the back issues of the newspapers to learn about Johnny’s death. On the way they get their revenge on the Wormers by stealing the clothes of the skinny-dipping boys. At the library, Roberta learns that her mother died in an auto accident, not a painless death as she has been told. The issues that would have explained how Johnny died have been torn out. Later, when Sam looses the friendship bracelet Teeny just gave her in a storm drain, she almost drowns, but is rescued by Crazy Pete, the local hermit. Sam’s grandmother tells them that something terrible happened to Johnny and his Mom. The girls break into her house and learn Johnny and his Mom were murdered. The girls make a friendship pact. They hold a second séance, where they see his tombstone apparently floating in air, but learn the caretaker just accidentally cracked it and was replacing it with his backhoe. Sam learns that Crazy Pete was “Dear Johnny’s father who had always felt guilty for being out drinking when his family was killed. Back in the present, Chrissy has her baby.
The year is given as 1970 at 10:48. The first full moon of summer was this date as per
Producers - Demi Moore and Suzanne Todd
Director - Lesli Linka Glatter
Screenwriter - I. Marlene King
Released – October 20, 1995
Runtime – 1 hour 40 minutes
Starring – Demi Moore as Samantha Albertson, Gabby Hoffman as Sam (young), Rosie O’Donnell as Roberta Martin, Christina Ricci as Roberta (young), Rita Wilson as Chrissy DeWitt, Ashleigh Aston Moore as Chrissy (young), Melanie Griffith as Teeny Tercell, Thora Birch as Teeny (young), Tucker Stone as Young Morton Williams, Carl Espy as Dr. Morton Williams, Devon Sawa as Scott Wormer, Lolita Davidovich as Mrs. Albertson, Rumer Willis as Angela Albertson, Cloris Leachman as Grandma Albertson, Hank Azaria as Bud Kent, Bonnie Hunt as Mrs. DeWitt, Janeane Garofalo as Wiladene. Walter Sparrow as Crazy Pete
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