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Haunted Summer is a american film of genre Drama directed by Ivan Passer released in USA on 16 december 1988 with Laura Dern
Haunted Summer (1989)
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Add to a movie listHaunted Summer is a 1988 drama film directed by Ivan Passer.
It stars Philip Anglim as Lord Byron, Eric Stoltz as Percy Shelley, Alice Krige as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Alex Winter as Dr. John William Polidori and Laura Dern as Claire Clairmont.
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Like the 1986 film Gothic, Haunted Summer is set in 1816. Authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley (née Godwin) and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs, and sex. It is a fictionalization of the summer that Lord Byron and the Shelleys, together with Lord Byron's ex-lover and his doctor, John Polidori, spent in the isolated Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva. It is there they devise a contest to adduce the best horror story to kill the dullness of summer. It is also there that one of the world's most famous books was given life—Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.Actors
Laura Dern
(Claire Clairmont)
Alex Winter
(Dr. John William Polidori)
Eric Stoltz
(Percy Shelley)
Peter Berling
(Maurice)
Philip Anglim
Alice Krige
(Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin)
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