A Real Summer

2007 · 45 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 171 VOTES · DIR. Stephen Poliakoff

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Overview

It is 1958, and the final debutante 'season'. Mary, a brilliant young writer and critic is befriended by Geraldine, a seemingly friendly young debutante of a similar age but a very different background. What starts as a friendship becomes something altogether more unsettling. This companion drama to Capturing Mary, charts Mary’s progress before she enters the dangerous world of Mr. Graham’s house and Greville White’s sphere of influence.

Dialogue Timeline — 686 lines

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00:00:36 Normally, I know how to start any article I write, any column
00:02:26 being treated with patronising jollity by these same directors.
00:04:15 with one of the most embarrassed silences I've ever heard.
00:06:09 You know, I'm often asked this, and I try my best to be vague
00:08:12 "I was nearly married. I was engaged
00:09:45 Terrible fear of rejection
00:11:28 It is as if she'd known I was different, but not that different
00:13:04 Well, I...
00:14:58 except for three strange-looking men, two of them grotesquely fat.
00:16:45 where we're menaced by ghoulish men sitting right behind us.
00:18:28 So during this last season
00:20:17 of Mr Hitchcock's Vertigo
00:21:34 "with two grumpy chambermaids to look after them.
00:23:41 -Oh, it's just a name. I needed a name. -You could have chosen a prettier name.
00:25:10 I like it how you blast everything, though.
00:26:36 Made me laugh, some of it.
00:30:02 -What did you say? Oh, hold on. -Hold on.
00:33:03 I scared you? When?
00:34:41 Never say, "I love you, darling."
00:36:28 -Cold, cold, cold. -That is undoubtedly true, Geraldine.
00:38:07 they'd left the chauffeur and the car and walked all the way back in the rain.
00:39:51 They told us nothing would be the same again.
00:41:50 About me? Why on earth are you concerned about me?
00:43:38 Subtitles by LeapinLar

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed686
Dialogue density15.2 lines / min
First line00:00:36
Final line00:43:38

Production Record

DirectorStephen Poliakoff
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes171