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Indian Summer is a american film of genre Drama directed by Mike Binder released in USA on 23 april 1993 with Alan Arkin
Indian Summer (1993)
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Add to a movie listIndian Summer is a 1993 comedy drama film written and directed by Mike Binder. The movie was filmed at Camp Tamakwa, a summer camp in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada, Binder attended for 10 summers as a child. Indian Summer features an ensemble cast, including Binder's childhood friend, film director Sam Raimi, who has a supporting role in it.
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"Unca" Lou Handler (Alan Arkin), the beloved camp director and owner of Camp Tamakwa, invites eight former campers, all now adults, back to the camp to announce his retirement. Lou claims to have chosen these friends as they were the group from the camp's "golden years" 20 years previously. Once there, the group comes to feel nostalgic memories of their youth and the unresolved feelings for each other begin to surface.Actors
Alan Arkin
(Unca Lou Handler)
Matt Craven
(Jamie Ross)
Diane Lane
(Beth Warden / Clair Everett)
Bill Paxton
(Jack Belston)
Elizabeth Perkins
(Jennifer Morton)
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