Dog Days of Summer 2007
A mysterious drifter lures two boys into uncovering the secrets of a sleepy southern town.
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Colin Ford
Jackson Patch
Will Patton
Eli Cottonmouth
Gregory Alan Williams
Sheriff Lem Baker
Richard Herd
Frank Cooper
Wayne Crawford
Quincy Patch
Devon Gearhart
Phillip Walden
R. Keith Harris
Pastor Salem / Marty
Mark Freiburger
Jessica Webb
Camille Ross
Colin Key
Phil Walden / Narrator / B-Movie Director
Paul Silver
Brock Walden
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Phillip Walden, now an adult, returns to the unnamed town where he grew up. In a voiceover, he expresses his disgust over the ramshackle, broken down state of things, and, with trepidation, recalls “the summer I unwillingly grew up.”
the summer I unwillingly grew up.
That summer kicks off with the arrival of Eli Cottonmouth, as witnessed by the preteen Philip Walden and his best friend Jackson Patch. The two boys stare in awe as he tumbles out of his old car and invites the townsfolk over to look at his amazing model circus. It is not long before Eli convinces the mayor to pay him to create a scale model of the town for the upcoming bisesquicentennial. Philip and Jackson, both dealing with troubles at home, glom onto Eli, using his old camera to take pictures of the town for Eli to use as inspiration.
Despite its picture-perfect surface, Philip’s town is anything but idyllic. His father is a minister, but not exactly the heroic kind—more the philandering kind. Jackson’s blind father drinks his life away, mourning the loss of Jackson’s mother to a car crash. Both boys are lost in a sea of adult emotions, with neither the maturity nor the resources to cope. As the boys take pictures for Eli, they watch the lives of those they love unraveling around them, and struggle to hang onto their dream of an uncomplicated life where the sun is always high and the river is filled with fish…
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