Thanks for the memories!

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

...please please,PLEASE, do not try to ape the Americans or else you would become like poor Jean-Hugues Anglade ,an estimable actor when he is given decent material to work with.To say the "material" is abysmal ,that's putting it mildly:desultory script which drags all the available clichés:the two sisters and their horrible family ,the doctor who gets an eyeful,the serial killer(s),the innocent going to hell,à la "blue velvet" ,all this wrapped in -you 've guessed it - the most dismal road movie you' ve ever seen.Even the "the long flashback" is not spared the viewer.Jean-Hugues Anglade ,supported,so to speak,by a hysterical cast ,looks ill-at-ease,like a Martian meeting a bunch of natives.The scene where his "classical musician" character turns country is involuntary funny.

Since my first kid I am the video store junkie from hell and I look for films I have never seen all the time. The film I found called "Dark Summer" I have no idea why this movie was not in the theaters. (Hollywood BS I'll bet, good films never get seen-GO INDIES!!!!) I saw from the cover Connie Nielsen and Mia Kirschner (Exotica-another great film) so I took a chance. The lead character played by this Jean Hughes Anglade was absolutely yummy for a French guy and the film was filled with all these cool actors like Keith David, Frank Langella and Anne Archer playing the most amazing character i have ever seen and probably the best of career. I won't give away any of the plot but this film has it all, great acting, gorgeous photography, murder, mayhem, perverts, drug addicts/alcoholics and a really kick ass cast. Support independent films and if you want to see a great movie, "Dark Summer" is one of the great ones that no one knows about out there!

"Dark Summer" or "Innocents" as it was entitled on Showtime, is a journeyman B-movie about a French cellist (Anglade) driving across country who finds himself with a couple of beautiful traveling companions (Nielsen & Kirshner) who may be a lethal liability. Among the many flaws are a musical score which is as lacking in continuity as the screenplay; too many contrived situations which seems no more than weirdness for weirdnesses sake or shock value; a noticeable absence of a story arc or an emotional anchor for the audience; and a generally concocted presentation. Nonetheless, the film has some entertainment potential for the couch potato or fans of the players. (C)

In a time when most movie plots are derivative and predictable it is nice to be surprised and kept guessing like the thriller "Dark Summer" starring Connie Nielsen. Writer, Director Gregory Marquette kept the pace unpredictable and breathless. Just when you think you know where this movie is going it changes tracks on you and you are caught in the whirlwind of mystery and intrigue. Co-stars Mia Kirshner and Jean Hugues Anglade are powerful and very convincing. It was also a lot of fun when the power cameos made their appearances. Robert Culp, a perennial favorite of mine is absolutely wicked as the disgraced Judge. Ann Archer, who I cannot recall ever taking a role like the one she portrayed in this film, is worthy for a Golden Globe as the alcoholic mother. Other Cameo's like Frank Langella and Keith David are too short to be a satisfying but I give this film a solid recommend for the viewers, like myself, who are tired of the same old formulaic plots of Hollywood's recycling factory.