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How I Spent my Summer Vacation

When a typical American family takes a cross-country vacation, it can only mean one thing total disaster!.

While on vacation, a just-divorced writer buys a villa in Tuscany on a whim, hoping it will be the start of a change for the better in her life. Along the way she finds that sometimes what seems like a mistake is really a blessing.

The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man.

Bob Wiley, a troubled but lovable therapy patient, seeks help from noted psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin. When the doctor leaves town to go on a quiet family vacation, Bob, afraid of being alone, follows--showing up unexpectedly at the therapist's lakeside retreat. Bob becomes the houseguest that just won't leave.

A man-eating shark causes havoc off the Long Island coast and three men join together to hunt and destroy it.

When a harried housewife is accidentally left behind while on vacation with her family, she decides to take a holiday of her own in Venice. 

While at summer camp, two young girls discover that they are long-lost twin sisters, separated shortly after birth. Reunited at last, they launch a coast-to-coast campaign to rekindle romance between their estranged parents.

A precocious 11-year-old tomboy obsessed with death shares a poignant summer with her widowed father, the sexy and kind cosmetician he hires, and most importantly with the boy-next-door who idolizes her.

A grieving widower and a lonely divorcee come together when she finds a message in a bottle on a Cape Cod beach that she knows was written by him.

A story about a special summer in the lives of four lifelong friends who are separated for the first time. The young women find a pair of jeans that fits each of them perfectly and they decide to use the pants as a way of keeping in touch.

A dream vacation turns into a hilarious tropical nightmare when a rough-hewn cargo pilot takes a sharp-tongued yuppie on a quick flight to Tahiti, only to crash in a storm, stranding the two on a deserted island.

Four teenagers come of age in 1962 on the last summer night before they go off to college, jobs, or the army. .

In the summer of 1979, a group of young friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a movie and when locals start to disappear, the inquisitive deputy suspects that the incident was anything but an accident.

The wackiest head counselor in North Star camp history, Tripper Harrison devotes his summer activities to cracking jokes, chasing female staffers, and plotting the demise of their evil rich rivals, the snotty young brats at nearby Camp Mohawk. .

It's the opportunity of a lifetime when teenage reporter William Miller lands an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine. Despite the objections of his protective mother, William hits the road with an up-and-coming rock band and finds there's a lot more to write home about than the music.

When a New York man realizes he is having a mid-life crisis, he and his friends decide to go on a cattle drive to find some adventure.

When a lawsuit creates a little league team with players no one else wanted, Morris Buttermaker, a disreputable former minor league player who played one game in the majors agrees to coach the team using his own unique approach to sports..