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- Release Date: 1998
- Runtime: 102 min
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Starring: Catherine O'Hara, Jared Leto, Christina Ricci, Gabriel Byrne ... see all
- Director: David Keating
- Plot: It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just... Read more
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| Aug 09, 2008Urban Cinefile
A gently disappointing film
Andrew L. Urban "Last of the High Kings is a gentle story built on characters, who, although interesting and colourful, somehow never quite gel together, nor does the story go anywhere.
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| Mar 29, 2002The Onion A.V. Club
Based on a novel by Irish writer Ferdia MacAnna, Summer Fling is a pleasant, unpretentious, ultimately uninvolving film that hews so closely to the conventions of the coming-of-age film that it verges on self-parody.
Released in Europe under the considerably less generic title Last Of The High Kings , Summer Fling tells the tale of an Irish teenager (Jared Leto) who comes of age during the summer of 1977.
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Sadly, the script is far too underpowered, and the good looking young star (Jared Leto) suffers from photogenesis where we would have liked inner charisma.
Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Rea and Christina Ricci are all wasted in incidental characters that, while performed brilliantly, add nothing to the film's value where it matters.
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