An American Summer
Boys Will Be Boys.
In this youthful drama, Tom, a 14- year-old who's parents have just divorced, is abruptly uprooted from his wealthy Chicago home and sent to the strange land of LA to live in the far-out beach bungalow of his aunt, an aging hippie still stuck in a by-gone era. He is unhappy with the new arrangement and finds his new bohemian lifestyle strange and the activities of his new peers, stupid. His life begins to change a bit when he befriends a young surfer named Fin. At first he thinks of the fun-loving Fin as a real dolt, but later he admits he was wrong. Like the Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn characters on which they are loosely based, the two new friends soon find themselves having a series of adventures, some of them dangerous; by the summer's end, Tom finds himself wiser, accustomed to California, and a lot more grown up.
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Top Cast
Brian Austin Green
Charles 'Fin' Findley
Michael Landes
Tom Travis
Joanna Kerns
Aunt Sunny
Amber Susa
Traci
Sherrié Austin
Cari
Wayne Péré
Rockman
Tony Crane
Bo
Brian Krause
Joey
Nick Benedict
Mr. Finley
John Chaidez
Dave Hartle
Andrew Divoff
Dode
John Zarchen
Surfing Judge
Chance Boyer
Kusick
Ron Melendez
Craig
Thomas David Parker
Convenience Store Clerk
William Frederick Knight
Clerk with Twitch
Chuck Walling
Sid
Charlene Simpson
Mona
Joy Baggish
Woman Buying Glasses
Mary Ingersoll
Reporter
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