2025 · comedy · drama
Summer of 69
Directed by Jillian Bell1h 42m2025
In an effort to land the guy she's been pining after since grade school, Abby hires a local stripper named Santa Monica to teach her everything she needs to know about confidence and sex.
Our read: Summer of 69 (2025) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
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