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Good acting can't save predictable `Summer Story'

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19880819
Author:Lloyd Sachs

A Summer Story (STAR) (STAR) Megan Imogen Stubbs Ashton James Wilby Jim Ken Colley Stella Sophie Ward Mrs. Narracombe Susannah York

Atlantic Releasing presents a film directed by Piers Haggard and produced by Danton Rissner. Screenplay by Penelope Mortimer, based on the John Galsworthy story "The Apple Tree." Photographed by Kenneth MacMillan. Edited by Ralph Sheldon. Music by Georges Delerue. Running time: 95 minutes. Rated PG-13. At local theaters.

For a while, things were looking pretty good on the British film front. The ...

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