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Summer's End is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Helen Shaver released in USA on 18 april 2000 with James Earl Jones
Summer's End (2000)
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Add to a movie listSummer's End is a Canadian-American 1999 TV movie drama directed by Helen Shaver in her directorial debut. The film tells the story of two teenage brothers and an African-American doctor. The movie revolves in the small town on a lake in Georgia. The film aired on Showtime.
Actors
James Earl Jones
(Dr. William 'Bill' Blakely)
Jake LeDoux
(Jamie Baldwin)
Brendan Fletcher
(Hunter Baldwin)
Wendy Crewson
(Virginia Baldwin)
Al Waxman
(Grandpa Trapnell)
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