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Summer Magic

Hayley Mills (Actor), Dorothy McGuire (Actor), James Neilson (Director) Rated:
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Format: DVD
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 2,746 ratings
IMDb6.9/10.0
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Genre ACTION, Comedy, LIVE
Format Multiple Formats, NTSC, Color, Closed-captioned
Contributor Peter Brown, Jimmy Mathers, Dorothy McGuire, James Stacy, Wendy Turner, Harry Holcombe, Eddie Hodges, Burl Ives, O.Z. Whitehead, Based On A Book By Kate Douglas Wiggin, Hayley Mills, Michael J. Pollard, Deborah Walley, James Neilson, Una Merkel, Screenplay By Sally Benson See more
Language English, Spanish
Runtime 1 hour and 48 minutes

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Hayley Mills brings a joyful enthusiasm to this nostalgic, musical, and bighearted adventure in small-town living, now on Disney DVD. When a close-knit Boston family loses their fortune, they find a wealth of family secrets, young love, and charming summer nights in Beulah, Maine. A good-natured postmaster, pretentious cousin Julia, and the mysterious absentee landlord, Mr. Hamilton, populate their new life in a charming old yellow house. Featuring an all-star supporting cast, including Burl Ives, Dorothy McGuire, and Deborah Walley, this classic and wondrous tale will delight the entire family and belongs in every Disney collection.|This film is based on the novel "Mother Carey's Chickens," by Kate Douglas, which has become an American classic.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.75:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ G (General Audience)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 3980600
  • Director ‏ : ‎ James Neilson
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, NTSC, Color, Closed-captioned
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 48 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ May 3, 2005
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Hayley Mills, Dorothy McGuire, Burl Ives, Deborah Walley, Michael J. Pollard
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Unqualified, Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Walt Disney Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00005JMVV
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Screenplay By Sally Benson, Based On A Book By Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
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Do not buy if you are in the US. Nowhere on the page did it say it couldn't be played in the US. Until it comes and you see the sticker, you, yes you guessed it, don't know it can't be used in DVD/Blu-ray in the US. Only given 1 star because Amazon makes you. Great movie, too bad it had to be returned.
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  • Lexi Wharem
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Disney childhood classic! For any Hayley Mills fans out there!!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2025
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    One of my favorite childhood movies! Was so happy to be able to purchase it so I could re-watch it when I feel nostalgic! Hayley Mills was so good in this!
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  • LeGreatOne
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the most endearing, unforgettable Live Person Disney film. Pure Entertainment!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2022
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    While almost all of the Reviews here speak to this movie's classic entertainment value, at least one knocks the song "On the Front Porch" and says it should have been cut! I disagree with that reviewer whole-heartedly, as it is the BEST song in the entire picture, truly unforgettable, and the emotions arising from the actors seated and singing along in that front porch scene are absolutely perfect for what the characters are experiencing at that moment. Also, as a pre-to-new teen when I first saw this film, I found Hayley Mills to be every bit the match of Deborah Walley, especially with the unattractive personality Ms. Walley's character was given. Ms. Walley was beautiful in other films, but Hayley Mills had something that no other young woman in the movies could match. She had her VOICE! Not as a singer, but as a speaker! Even now, her buttery UK accent in this film is such a treat, and her very REAL, light-up-the-room smile and vibrant personality is a real treat! This MOVIE is truly great, warm fun, and is the one film I think all kids should watch, especially pre-teens. There is so much FAMILY here! So much "I am a kid, but I'm growing up! Look at me!" This is a movie that stays with you forever. It's a Happy Place captured in a time capsule. Watch it, love it, wish you could live it. Why isn't this available in BluRay? Enjoy!
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  • DrScott
    5.0 out of 5 stars Family favorite
    Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2024
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    I’ve been watching this since I was a kid and now can share it with my kids! Fun storyline, great songs, entertaining!
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  • LEIGH STUTZMAN
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Disney movie !
    Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2024
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    I loves this movie even since I was little girl! It's a great movie !
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  • James Johnston
    5.0 out of 5 stars Warm And Cozy Disney Charm
    Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2012
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    what can you honestly say about a movie like this except that, well, you like it. it's not a great work of cinema (although it's probably a better made contrivance than it's given credit for), and it's pretty much about nothing except a bunch of little girls. and it has enough gooey, sticky, sentiment to quagmire. but happily it doesn't. i think that's what impresses me the most, it may not be about much, but it knows what it's doing.
    Hayley Mills is cutesy adorable as always with her easy going, friendly charm. and this movie is a must for anyone into Burl Ives nostalgia. it also has Hollywood bad boy Michael J. Pollard in it to balance the cootie girly element.
    i don't know what makes me respond to sentimental schmaltz like this. i usually don't like a lot of cutesy, sentimental movies. but every now and then i respond to them. i think it depends a lot on how dry and sensible the approach is. and this film very aptly keeps things "flutter'in" along before the viewer realizes how gooey this all is.
    suprisingly movies like this seem so simple but actually they are pretty difficult to pull off. it's probably not easy to make a film this light and about absolutely nothing like this and not leave the viewer disinterested. not that everyone will delight in this fluff. i doubt a lot of boys or males will be "wowed" by any of this.
    'Summer Magic' is a real Disney gem of nostalgia and sentiment, although hardly the great cinema work that the masterpiece 'So Dear to My Heart' is. it's a well made film and it keeps the viewer moving forward without being too aware what little weight or substance this featherweight film has.
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  • A. Murphy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Always a delight
    Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2024
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    So fun to watch this movie again! Always a delight!
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  • Only-A-Child
    4.0 out of 5 stars Magical
    Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2009
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    Good or bad, happy or sad, come what may this will always be the most magical of the movies I saw in a theater as a child. Already charmed by its Disney, Norman Rockwell, Hallmark look at the Ragtime Age; this 12 year old boy was simply bowled over 30 minutes into the film by his first glimpse of Deborah Walley. Walley was already a teen queen from her "Gidget" film but had escaped my too-young-to-notice teen stars 6th grade consciousness until that day at the theater.

    In her period costume this vision was the original "Pretty in Pink" and the most beautiful girl I had ever seen. And might explain my lifelong preference for redheads.

    At its core "Summer Magic" is a Disney fairy tale cloaked in a "too-good-to-be-true" production design. If the term expressionist nostalgia ever applied to a film it is this one. Disney simply took basic plot elements form the novel and film "Mother Carey's Chickens" (1938), threw in a bunch of "Cinderella" elements, and had Dorothy McGuire softly reprise her performance in "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn".

    If you can't find something here with which to connect, whether it is wistful identification or distanced examination of the film language elements, then you are probably already pretty much used up. Liking this film now is just having the willingness to exercise a little self-knowing whimsy.

    Cinderella-wise you have a fairy prince, a glass slipper, a wicked step-sister, a wardrobe transformation scene, cute animals, a coach, songs, and a ball.

    The songs are along the lines of those seen recently in "Enchanted" but without the elaborate special effects. A couple of these ("Pink of Perfection" and Femininity" have been popping into my head ever since 1963. Those two and "Ugly Bug Ball" have held up surprisingly well. "Flitterin" and "Beautiful Beulah" are decent if not especially memorable.

    "On the Front Porch" was weak then and hasn't improved with age; it should have been trimmed from the film as that is the film's weakest (insert "boring" here) scene. The sequence should be of interest to film students as it is the only time the director has real difficulty keeping the cast focused; definitely a post-production challenge for the editor who did some damage control but could not salvage anything worth keeping.

    Viewing the film today I found Wendy Turner (as Lallie Joy Popham-Virginia Weidler's role in the 1938 film) a revelation. Turner's is the most authentic performance; which is interesting as she was originally cast as the youngest of the three girls simply because she was slightly shorter than the height-challenged Walley. Her ability to take acting for the camera direction must have been a pleasant surprise for director James Neilson. She gets to do an ugly duckling wardrobe transformation sequence worthy of "Cinderella".

    As often happened with Disney, a variety of elements were included to insure that it appealed to the widest demographic. So you have a shaggy sheep dog (where have I seen that before?), you have a couple of handsome young actors (Peter Brown is one of these), you have a Moochie Corcoran hammy kid, you have the comedy relief of acting veterans Una Merkel and Burl Ives to appeal to parents, and you have liberal use of Disney's stock nature footage.

    Although I was too dazzled by Walley to pay much attention to Hayley Mills this was probably her best performance for Disney, it was certainly the most difficult part she was given. Her acting was more polished than in "Pollyanna" and the disconnect of her out-of-place English accent taught us young Disney viewers all about suspension of disbelief.

    Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful
    Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2024
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    The actors, music and time period make this movie a joy to watch.
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  • Lara
    5.0 out of 5 stars film in lingua inglese
    Reviewed in Italy on December 5, 2021
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    bel film arrivato in anticipo per mantenere in esercizio il proprio inglese
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  • Xic
    3.0 out of 5 stars Marga
    Reviewed in Spain on March 23, 2018
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    Es una pelicula entretenida ,sólo he tenido un pequeño problema mi DVD no lo leía pero probé con otro DVD y la pudimos ver , imagen , sonido y colores perfectos y a mi hija le gustó mucho yo ya la había visto de pequeña "que recuerdos ".
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  • paul block
    5.0 out of 5 stars tops
    Reviewed in Australia on March 23, 2019
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    very good pic q
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  • win7KH
    5.0 out of 5 stars よくぞケンタッキー州から。
    Reviewed in Japan on August 8, 2018
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    ケンタッキー州から良くぞ２日程度の誤差で届くものだと感心しました。
    小学生の頃に見た映画ですが、現在の大会社のディズニーでは初期の実写映画は表に出ない貴重品です。
    楽しみに見ます。
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  • rob
    5.0 out of 5 stars Hayley Mills in Summer Magic
    Reviewed in Canada on August 26, 2013
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    Charming update of Mother Carey's Chickens with a winning cast helmed by Dorothy McGuire and Burl Ives with a teenage Hayley Mills on the cusp of adulthood. Tuneful with the popular Ugly Bug Ball as well as the Sherman Brothers personal favourite On The Front Porch With You. Enjoyable light entertainment.
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