The Movies of Summer 1993
So, welcome to the summer of 93. I turned 16 that summer, and much like the previous year, things were rough for my family. With my dad gone and my brothers off in college, my mom decided we needed a smaller house. She started plans to build us a new house. Unfortunately, that would mean that we would have to live somewhere else that summer, as our old house had been sold, and our new one wouldn't be completed until December. And so, during the summer, we lived at my grandmother's old house which had been empty at the time. It's not that it was a bad house, my problem with it was that there was no central air conditioning. And of course, the summer became one of the hottest on record. And due to the street repair job that was going on right outside most of the summer, not only did we have construction sounds most of the day, but the wonderful smell of pavement tar would always be on the breeze. We couldn't close the windows and turn on the air, so we just had to live with the heat, noise, and smell. I remember three things about that summer. One was I was kind of depressed, due to the home situation and troubles at school I had during the previous year. Another was that I spent most of that summer sleeping on the floor of the living room in a sleeping bag, because that room was the coolest at night, and we had a plug in fan in that room, so it was fairly comfortable in there. The final thing I remember is that I got into walking that summer. The house was in close distance to some stores, the library and the movie theater, so I decided to walk to a lot of these places. I became hooked on walking, and I still do it regularly to this day. But enough about me. Time to look back at the summer movies that served as my escapism from the heat and construction that summer. We've got quite a few to cover this time around, so let's get the ball rolling.
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