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The Wonder Years

posted 18 years ago by ChessGuy1966
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This movie was made when I was 13 and it still remains one of my favorite. I have been to sleepaway camp every summer and hated it. At that tender age being in a bunk with no friends and not being that great in sports made it a very long summer. My parents didn't want me to stay home all summer so I was forced to go. I didn't make any friends since the kids were too competitive with the sports and they were all spoiled kids. Looking back I did not learn anything or become a better person from this experience. That's why I loved this movie so much since it was filmed during 1980 the same time I was in my last years of sleepaway camp which reminded me of what it feels like to be a kid. And more importantly the fact that Ferris and Angel at least made one friend and had a learning experience that will help them through life. Looking back during my youth I was so caught up in just losing my virginity and this movie made me realize it was supposed to be with someone special.

[–] nirvana_grunge_girl 17 years ago

Wow thats really cool, I remember going to a camp once in summer, only for a few weeks and HATED it soo much, like yourself I never made any friends. I also remember crying a lot because the girls were not very friendly at all, just very snobbish and spiteful. But now I just laugh when I think about it, and this movie brings back fond memories of the type of stuff that happend.

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[–] sistaeasy 17 years ago

This movie has nothing, absolutly nothing in common with American pie!!
And I'm very glad about it because "Little Darlings" is such a wonderful movie with an important message and not a stupid teen movie like "American pie".
So if you like to watch a movie like "American pie" you'll be disapointed. But if you like to watch a very warm-hearted story with the first being-in-love-moments then you have to watch "Little Darlings".
Why isn't it still out in Germany on DVD? I love this movie so much!
And back to topic: I know how terrible it is, to stay at the summer holidays in a summer camp while the parents have their fun alone without a kid around their feet. It was very terrible for me and I cried so often and phoned at my mom and asked her to get me back home but she thought I would make friends there.
So some kids have fun in a summer camp and some kids don't have that luck.
I wish that I had such a great time like the kids had in "Little Darlings" but maybe it was just my destiny ;-)

[–] davebuffalo (3512) 2 years ago

I'm really saddened to hear your story about how much you hated camp. Movies like this and Parent Trap, make it look like everyone is having a great time.

I never went to a "sleepover" camp. Shame on your parents for dumping you there if you didn't really like being there.