{"id":12799,"date":"2021-07-22T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itwaslikemagic.com\/?p=12799"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:43:41","slug":"thursday-movie-picks-summer-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/thursday-movie-picks-summer-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Movie Picks: Summer Break"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wanderingthroughtheshelves.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Wandering through the Shelves<\/a>\u00a0hosts a weekly movie challenge in which you choose 3-5 movies based on that Thursday&#8217;s theme and explain why you chose those movies.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s theme is Summer Break movies,\u00a0so here are my choices!<\/p>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/103.png\" alt=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Summer Break\" height=\"675\" width=\"1200\" title=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Summer Break\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\t<h3><strong>Say Anything&#8230; (1989)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>Say Anything&#8230; <\/em>is one of my favorite films and to me, the quintessential teen romance. After high school graduation, slacker Lloyd Dobbler decides to put it all out there and ask out his dream girl, the studious valedictorian, Diane Court. Diane and Lloyd fall in love over the summer while Diane&#8217;s move to England for an important fellowship looms. It&#8217;s a funny, romantic film by Cameron Crowe and has one of the most perfect <a href=\"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/25756-2\/\">grand gestures<\/a> in film history.<\/p>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/100.png\" alt=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Summer Break\" height=\"675\" width=\"1200\" title=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Summer Break\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\t<h3><strong>Now and Then (1995)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I adore coming-of-age films, and <em>Now and Then<\/em> is one of my favorites. Set in the summer of 1970, the story follows four friends as they overcome personal struggles through the strength of sisterhood and friendship. With an amazing cast, <em>Now and Then<\/em> is one of those movies I find sorely underrated. It&#8217;s definitely worth a watch and in my eyes, is a classic.<\/p>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/102.png\" alt=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Summer Break\" height=\"675\" width=\"1200\" title=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Summer Break\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\t<h3><strong>Stand By Me (1986)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Like <em>Now and Then<\/em>, <em>Stand By Me <\/em>is a coming-of-age film featuring four boys, all with their own troubles, on a journey to find the body of a boy who was supposedly hit and killed by a train. Along the way, they bond, fight, and find the beauty in childhood. It&#8217;s one of my favorite movies, as well as my favorite novella (by Stephen King), and it never fails to make me cry. For anyone who spent their childhood summers finding adventure with their friends, this movie hits hard.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday Movie Picks: Summer Break: Wandering through the Shelves hosts a weekly movie challenge in which you choose 3-5 movies based on that Thursday&#8217;s theme and explain why you chose those movies. 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