DVD Review & Giveaway: Perfect Summer

In The Perfect Summer, fatherless teenager Jake (Adam Horner) is happy living in Chicago, until his mother (Sydney Penny) decides to uproot them to a small surfing town where her estranged father (Eric Roberts), Jake's grandfather, lives. The transition isn't easy for anyone and it seems everywhere he goes, Jake manages to make enemies, including the town bully, Tyler (JD Banks), who doesn't like the new interloper or his interest in young surfing prodigy, Kayla (Katie Garfield). Stuck in the beach town with no friends and no knowledge of surfing, Jake has nowhere to turn until Cody (Jason Castro), the local surf shop owner, reveals that Jake's grandfather is a surf legend. Tired of feeling like an outcast, Jake asks Lou to teach him about surfing. Jake learns to face his fears, push through inhibitions and realizes that winning the respect of his new peers - and Katie's heart - might mean facing the biggest challenge of his life

My thoughts:

Bitter sweet family movie.

In this movie, Jake and his mom live in Chicago.  But after Jake's father's death, his mom moves them to a small surf town, where they end up living with his mom's father.  Jake doesn't surf and it seems everyone in this town does.

Jake starts to take surf lessons from his grandfather.  He meets a pretty girl.  But she comes along with a very jealous ex-boyfriend.  There are some challenges for Jake through out this movie.

I watched this movie with my ten year old and seven year old.  They both loved the surfing scenes in this movie.

Eric Roberts is one of my favorite actors, and he did a superb job as playing Jake's grandfather.  In fact the whole cast of this movie were great. A great movie for the whole family to watch!




The Giveaway

One lucky winner is going to receive a DVD copy of Perfect Summer. To enter, just fill in the Giveaway Tools form below.  This giveaway will end on  9/3/14. Open to the US only. The winner will be notified via email and will have 48 hours to reply. Thanks again to  for offering this fantastic prize.

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