Video Capsule Review

Indian Summer (1993)

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Rated: PG-13; Genres: Comedy, Drama; With: Alan Arkin and Bill Paxton

By Ty Burr

Ty Burr

Ty Burr is a writer at large for EW and is no relation to Raymond or Aaron

It's about as close to ''The Big Chill'' as you can get without awakening the copyright lawyers. True, the setting is a summer camp rather than a funeral, but Paxton's burned-out drifter has a certain hurt (as in William) to him, and Kimberly Williams even looks like Meg Tilly as one of the thirtysomething pals' twentysomething fiancee. Yet if the characters are prefab, writer-director Mike Binder does know from summer camp. The fireside readings of ''The Cremation of Sam McGee,'' the dumb contests, the ruthless pranks -- it's all here except the gimp keychains. The sentiments never go deeper than Hallmark, but this movie still makes a pleasant rental way to see out the summer.

Posted Sep 24, 1993

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