One Crazy Summer

02/28/23 • 36 min

It's the first episode of It's A Classic, the podcast of Gen X (Nathan vs Gen Z (Jessica) on whether the movies of Nathan's childhood and university years are truly CLASSIC. The rules are simple:

1. All movies MUST be on a current streaming service.
2. All movies MUST have released between 1975 and 1999
3. All movies MUST be watched in their entirety

This episode's viewing is the second collaboration of John Cusack and "Savage" Steve Holland, ONE CRAZY SUMMER (1986).

With a name like Hoops McCann, he's bound to get that basketball scholarship after high school, right? Wrong! What Hoops really wants to do is write and illustrate a love story. To help him find his way, his friend George invites Hoops to come with him and his sister to spend the summer on Nantucket. The friends Crazy Summer begins when they pickup Cassandra on the way--she's being chased by a motorcycle gang. From here on in, it only gets crazier. Once on the island, Hoops and George, along with George's island friends the Stork twins and Ack-Ack (son of a marine), must help Cassandra save her grandfather's house from the greedy Beckersted Family. Along the way, Hoops must find a way to write his cartoon love story - and maybe a real one of his own. --IMDB Synopsis

Sit back. Think back. Decide if it's really the classic you remember!

It's the first episode of It's A Classic, the podcast of Gen X (Nathan vs Gen Z (Jessica) on whether the movies of Nathan's childhood and university years are truly CLASSIC. The rules are simple:

1. All movies MUST be on a current streaming service.
2. All movies MUST have released between 1975 and 1999
3. All movies MUST be watched in their entirety

This episode's viewing is the second collaboration of John Cusack and "Savage" Steve Holland, ONE CRAZY SUMMER (1986).

Sit back. Think back. Decide if it's really the classic you remember!

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