Dog Days of Summer (film)
Dog Days of Summer is a 2007 American independent feature film directed by Mark Freiburger and shot on location in Edenton, North Carolina. It is based on an original screenplay by screenwriters Travis Beacham and Christopher J. Waild.
Dog Days of Summer opens with adult Philip Walden paying a visit 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. That summer kicked off with the arrival of Eli Will Patton, as witnessed by preteen Philip Devon Gearhart and best friend Jackson Colin Ford. The two boys stare in awe as Eli tumbles out of his ancientlooking car and invite the townsfolk over to look at his amazing model circus. Its 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 pictureperfect surface, Philips town is anything but idyllic. His father is a minister, but not exactly the heroic kindmore the philandering kind. Jacksons blind father drinks his life away, mourning the loss of Jacksons 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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