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How I Spent my Summer Vacation, Part 2

When the son of a plumber from Brooklyn is invited to a fancy beach club one summer day, he is lured from his working class world.

Newly-inaugurated mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, is only beginning to implement his anti-fun initiatives against crimes like noisy portable radio, graffiti and public drunkenness. Set in this time, is troubled high school student Luke Shapiro who is a teenage pot dealer who forms a friendship with Dr. Jeffrey Squires, a psychiatrist and kindred lost soul. When the doctor proposes Luke trade him weed for therapy sessions, the two begin to explore both New York City and their own depression.

The next generation of Griswolds is at is again, and on the road for another ill-fated adventure. Following in his father's footsteps and hoping for some much-needed family bonding, a grown-up Rusty Griswold surprises his wife, and their two sons with a cross-country trip back to Wally World.

An innocent young girl is introduced to the sensuality of dance when she meets the dance instructor at her resort hotel.

When two friends spend a summer in Barcelona, they meet an artist who suggests the three of them take off for a romantic weekend.

When a businessman decides to take his family on a vacation in a rented cottage on the West Coast seashore, everyone starts to complain and create problems, until he steps in and saves the day.

While fourteen year old Duncan is being dragged on a family trip with his mom and her overbearing boyfriend, he finds a gregarious friend at a local water park. The two form a powerful bond as Duncan learns to swim through the challenges of life, love, family and friendship, resulting in a vacation he'll never forget.

In 1987, James Brennan's dreams of a European summer vacation before studying at an Ivy League school in New York City are ruined after his parents have a severe career setback. As a result, James must get a summer job to cover his upcoming expenses. He goes to work at the decrepit local amusement park, Adventureland - a place where the games are rigged and the rides make you sick. There, he falls in love with witty co-worker, Emily Lewin. 

While in Paris on vacation, a writer travels back in time each night at midnight and discovers what he truly wants from life.

A bored English housewife accepts a friend's invitation to vacation in Greece where she quickly recaptures her rebellious youthful spirit and begins a wild fling with a Greek man.

An ambitious young New Yorker, disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome, where she defiantly plucks magic coins from a fountain of love, inexplicably igniting the passion of an odd group of suitors: a sausage magnate, a street magician, an adoring painter, and a self-admiring model. But when a charming reporter pursues her with equal zest, how will she know if his love is the real thing?.

A hairdresser completes her cancer treatment, walks into her home to celebrate with her family, and is met with a even bigger surprise..

A modern-day princess rebels against her royal obligations and explores Rome on her own. She meets an American newspaperman who, seeking an exclusive story, pretends ignorance of her identity. But his plan falters as they fall in love.

In rural Louisiana of the 1950's, two young sisters share everything together, until they meet a young man to whom they are both attracted.

A chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent catastrophe.

After reading her mother's diary, Sophie discovers she has three possible fathers, so she secretly invites them all to her wedding at her mother's hotel on a Greek island.

When Elliot Tiber moves to Woodstock, N.Y. to help with his family's motel, he hears that a music festival has lost its permit from the next town and quickly calls to offer the hotel for the concert crew.

Two aging friends take an adventurous vacation in Iceland, reflecting on their failed marriages and life in general.