The Summer I Turned Pretty movie

2022 - 6 - 17

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Fall In Love Again When 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Officially ... (Bustle)

The TV adaptation of Jenny Han's YA novel is getting another season on Amazon Prime Video.

A week before the series debuted, Deadline announced that Amazon renewed The Summer I Turned Pretty for Season 2. If Amazon’s show is as successful as the hit Netflix rom-com, The Summer I Turned Pretty is likely to see a third installment to round out its adaptation. The TV series is based on The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han. The author’s name probably sounds familiar because Han is the mind behind the To All The Boys I Loved Before series that evolved from best-selling books to a Netflix movie trilogy. Since Belly remains the main character in the book trilogy, the TV show will likely keep its lead, Lola Tung, at the forefront in its sophomore season. Summer is right around the corner, and thankfully, Prime Video has just the right show to welcome the sunny new season. Motherhood and female friendship take centerstage atop the backdrop of first loves and first heartbreaks, all existing throughout one perfect summer.

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The Summer I Turned Pretty Cast: Where You've Seen The Stars Of ... (Cinema Blend)

From Jenny Han, the author of the novels that inspired that film franchise, comes The Summer I Turned Pretty - an Amazon Prime original series about a teenage ...

Some of his most notable small screen credits include MTV’s series adaptation of Scream, voicing Booster Gold on Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and as a part of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why cast as Tyler Down’s father. He made his acting debut in 2015 as a “Spy Jogger” in 11-minute romantic comedy, Mature Young Adults, and first starred in a feature film the next year with the more dramatic, Happy Baby. However, Kaufman’s earliest gig was narrating the 2012 documentary, City World. Chung has also made notable guest spots on Grey’s Anatomy and HBO Max’s Station 19, and co-wrote and starred in the 2006 miniseries, Finding My America. Before the premiere season of the romantic, coming-of-age drama drops Friday, June 17, 2022, let’s take a look at who plays whom in the Summer I Turned Pretty cast. Speaking of “introducing,” audiences will be officially introduced to Lola Tung when she makes her acting debut leading Amazon Prime’s The Summer I Turned Pretty cast. From Jenny Han, the author of the novels that inspired that film franchise, comes The Summer I Turned Pretty - an Amazon Prime original series about a teenage girl who becomes wrapped up in a love triangle with her two childhood friends during one life-changing summer.

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Is The Summer I Turned Pretty on Netflix? (Netflix Life)

To All the Boys I've Loved Before will be happy to hear another Jenny Han trilogy is being adapted. It's all about The Summer I Turned Pretty.

All episodes of The Summer I Turned Pretty season 1 are now available to stream there. The question fans of the Jenny Han novels have is where The Summer I Turned Pretty will stream. When news spread that The Summer I Turned Pretty would be turned into a TV series, there was a lot of cheers.

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The Summer I Turned Pretty' Season 2: Spoilers, Cast, Plot Details (Today.com)

"The Summer I Turned Pretty" was renewed for a second season. Read on for cast interviews and plot spoilers based on Jenny Han's book series.

To find his ins and outs, what makes him tick, why he's so mean sometimes." On the grown-up side of things, Jackie Chung plays Laurel, Belly and Steven's mom. "He is the life of the party. Grieving, they throw a blow-out party, and Laurel comes to deal with the aftermath. When Conrad disappears from school, Belly and Jeremiah go on a road trip to find him, ending up at the beach house. Tung, if you're curious, won't take sides in the Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah debate. However, she decided to "choose" Jeremiah, because he's able to communicate and tell her how he feels. Conrad and Belly explore a romantic connection — he even takes her to prom prior to Susannah's death. Susannah dies of the breast cancer she had been hiding from her kids in Season One, until her diagnosis comes out in the dramatic finale. "'The Summer I Turned Pretty' is about a girl's coming of age. "I want to know what happens! The announce date has not been scheduled.

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Where is The Summer I Turned Pretty filmed? Filming locations ... (HITC)

The Summer I Turned Pretty is set in the idyllic town of Cousins Beach but where was the series actually filmed?

Sadly for fans, the town of Cousins Beach is not actually a real place. And it’s the east coast of the US where The Summer I Turned Pretty chose to film, with the city of Wilmington in North Carolina serving as the central location. The Summer I Turned Pretty is filmed in and around Wilmington, North Carolina.

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Christopher Briney on Conrad in The Summer I Turned Pretty ... (POPSUGAR)

In our Q&A series "POPSUGAR Crush," we get to know some of our favorite celebs' more intimate details — from their first celebrity crush to the best love ...

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Inside Jenny Han's Decade-Long Journey to Bring The Summer I ... (E! Online)

Thirteen years after its release, the TV adaptation of the beloved YA novel is finally premiering on Amazon Prime Video. Author and co-showrunner Jenny Han ...

In your own head, you produced that story, you envisioned the character and the clothes and the set design, that was something you already did as a reader and that was your experience. "I see the stuff that fans are saying, like, 'If it's not exactly like the book I'm going to cry,'" Han said. "That would be a dream come true because then we'd really get to tell the story." "It's a memory, but at the same time, I wanted it to feel resonant and current and raw." "Jeremiah is a character that doesn't try hard," Han said. "The best version of these books is the one you already saw in your own head. "The characters are all still the same, but I think with so much time passing it's just a different moment," Han said. She is Belly. She is my perfect Belly." "It's a hard character to nail because he's so insular. The wait proved to be worth it as Han is serving as co-showrunner on the new series. "It has been a really long journey," Han told E! News in a recent phone interview. Centering on the complicated relationships between one girl and the two brothers she's grown up vacationing with, the show is a coming-of-age tale about the magic of firsts and the nostalgia that only a summer romance can deliver.

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How to Watch 'The Summer I Turned Pretty': Where to Stream the YA ... (Collider.com)

Based on the novel by Jenny Han comes the new series The Summer I Turned Pretty. Here's how you can watch it.

You will be able to stream all eight episodes of The Summer I Turned Pretty on Amazon Prime Video. Don't have an Amazon Prime account? Love, Victor: Based on the 2018 romantic film, Love, Simon, which was based on the book, Simon vs. The Kissing Booth film series stars Joey King, Jacob Elordi, and Joel Courtney. The film was written and directed by Vince Marcello. You can watch all three The Kissing Booth films on Netflix. The Summer I Turned Pretty is a romantic drama series that tells the story of Belly. During an annual summer vacation at her family friend’s beach house, she reunites with her friends, Jeremiah and Conrad, who also happen to be brothers and now, Belly is stuck in a love triangle between the two brothers. It is a coming-of-age story about first love, first heartbreak, and the magic of that one perfect summer.” The show is based on Jenny Han’s coming-of-age novel of the same name.

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What We Know About Prime Video's "The Summer I Turned Pretty ... (Seventeen.com)

Amazon Prime's exciting new series "The Summer I Turned Pretty" adapted from Jenny Han's YA trilogy is almost here. Here's everything we know about the ...

Lucky for us, The Summer I Turned Pretty is based on the book trilogy by Jenny Han, so we pretty much have the source material before season 2 even hits the Prime Video streamer. The synopsis for the second book, It's Not Summer Without You, is as follows: If this summer really and truly is the last summer, it should end the way it started—at Cousins Beach. "To receive a second season pickup ahead of the premiere of Season One is beyond my wildest dreams. Season 1, which is based on the first book, follows 16-year-old Belly as she spends her summers in Cousins Beach with her mom, her older brother Steven, and her mom's childhood best friend and her sons, Conrad and Jeremiah. The end of last season left us with a major cliffhanger as Belly and Conrad shared a kiss on the beach... Since season 1 just premiered, we'll probably have to hang tight for season 2.

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'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Review: A Perfectly Distracting YA ... (The Playlist)

Newcomer Lola Tung stars as teenager Isabel “Belly” Conklin, whose family's annual summer trip to Cousins Beach, Virginia gets shaken up by both family drama ...

While “The Summer I Turned Pretty” doesn’t exactly reinvent the breezy teen summer series, it’s a bit like an overly sweet icy pop. Although the voiceover in which she shares these feelings is unevenly deployed, it’s refreshing to see a story that puts the girl in the driver’s seat and gives her the room to work through the contradictions of adolescence and sexual coming-of-age on her own terms. The show is already renewed for a second season, so the last two books in Han’s trilogy will likely make the leap to the small screen, bringing closure to those loose ends. While Blanchard is more than capable of balancing between Susannah’s dream of one last perfect summer with her family and the darkness she keeps inside, her illness feels like a trope that was outdated when the book trilogy was first published a decade ago. Like the Britney song, she’s no longer a girl, not yet a woman, but she is enjoying exploring the complications that come with romance and dating. Complicating things further is Cam (David Iacono, “The Flight Attendant”), who is the first boy to show Belly any kind of romantic attention.

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(KOLO) - To infinity and beyond! The origin of Buzz Lightyear, Star Command and the seedy villain Zurg is front and center in the new animated film, Lightyear.

Jenny Han is also the author behind the book-turned-movies, To All the Boys I Loved Before. The new movie is expected to be the biggest animated film of the summer. The origin of Buzz Lightyear, Star Command and the seedy villain Zurg is front and center in the new animated film, Lightyear. Chris Evans voices the iconic space ranger made popular in the original Toy Story series.

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The Summer I Turned Pretty Cast Takes Cue From Disney Ad (TheWrap)

Their wand-waving and logo-tracing is reminiscent of Disney actors doing the same to Mickey Mouse ears.

Featuring a loaded soundtrack of popular songs by artists including Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish and more, the first season of “The Summer I Turned Pretty” is now streaming on Prime Video. “The Summer I Turned Pretty” has nostalgia nailed — and Amazon Prime Video’s latest promotion of the series proves it — as the cast sketch the Amazon arrow logo just like Disney Channel actors and actresses used to do with the Mickey Mouse ears during commercials. “I did it the best out of everybody, right?” Iacono asked.

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10 Best TV Shows Like The Summer I Turned Pretty (Screen Rant)

After binging the first season of The Summer I Turned Pretty fans should check out these other teen shows about love, mistakes, and growing up.

And while Outer Banks is more of a mystery show, The Summer I Turned Pretty has its own share of mystery thanks to Laurel and Susannah's secret. They also both follow young teenagers who are a bit out of their element, spending summer in a place they're not used to living. While The Summer I Turned Pretty has a unique story to tell, there are a ton of other teen and coming-of-age movies that are similar to the series. The series also follows an ensemble cast of teenagers who are navigating their own highs and lows of romantic relationships in high school. With Sam focusing on romance and being more independent, the rest of his family must adjust to their new roles in supporting Sam while also navigating their own changing lives. Like the books, the series centers on Belly (Lola Tung), a teenager who winds up in a love triangle with two brothers while trying to enjoy her summer vacation.

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Jenny Han on Taylor Swift Songs in The Summer I Turned Pretty (TheWrap)

The Summer I Turned Pretty author Jenny Han and star Lola Tung talk about getting multiple Taylor Swift songs into the Prime Video series.

And she said her readers had a significant influence in the adaptation of “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” especially when it came to the soundtrack. “Fans of the books have asked me over the years if there could be Taylor [Swift] music and I always of course wanted it but I can’t promise anything because it’s like not up to me,” Han said. “Belly is such an emotionally driven person and a loving person and she cares so much about these people in her life all in different ways,” Tung said. “As a longtime [Taylor Swift] fan, it was a dream come true to have one song, much less, we have five songs like to have that on the show was unbelievable,” Han said. Prime Video’s “The Summer I Turned Pretty” is set to make a splash, and maybe even some waves, with author Jenny Han having adapted the first book of her beloved trilogy into a new TV series — which has already been renewed for a second season. Susannah Fisher (Rachel Blanchard) and Belly’s mom Laurel (Jackie Chang) have been best friends since college, and every summer they bring their children to Cousins Beach. Belly and her brother Steven (Sean Kaufman) have grown up with the Fisher boys Conrad (Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno), with the boys often banding together on adventures while Belly always felt a little left out as the youngest one and the only girl in the group.

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'Summer I Turned Pretty' EP Jenny Han on Major Changes From Her ... (Variety)

Jenny Han, 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' author, talks the show's changes and what couple she sees together in the end.

So I would love to be able to finish telling that story the way that I wrote it. The way I approached the music was thinking about how I think that there’s always that song of summer. Different artists handle it different ways, but that was pretty much the process for all the music that we approached. I would say that Rachel and I talked a lot about how I think that Susannah is like one of the most important characters in the first season. I really wanted to show the breadth of female friendships and the intensity of it and the intimacy of it and really celebrate how these two women chose each other, and they’ve been choosing each other for decades. We have a lot of conversations about Susannah’s trajectory and all the cast members read the books as well, so everybody was coming into it with that base of knowledge. It’s a bit of a balancing act, because I really had to weigh what the fans are expecting with where the show is going creatively and find that balance. There is a lot of Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo and Ariana Grande. Can you explain your process of getting the rights to those huge hits? I think it was it was a really natural choice to make. I definitely had moments of going back and forth for sure, because I think in order to write these characters, you have to love them and you have to understand them and have empathy for them. Bely has always had a crush on one of the boys, Conrad, and is best friends with his brother, Jeremiah. Ahead of her 16th birthday, she returned back to the beach once again and they all took notice that she was no longer a little girl. She’s the main character and so it was the most important that we found our right Belly,” Han tells Variety. “Lola had this freshness to her.

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'The Summer I turned Pretty' Season 1: Ending, Explained - Who ... (Digital Mafia Talkies)

They should have come up with a better title for "The Summer I Turned Pretty"—was our first defining thought a few episodes into the show.

As he goes in for a kiss, Belly stops him and tells him that she just doesn’t want to be someone he needs but wishes to be someone he wants. But after he tells her that he can’t go to the debutante ball with her as her date, and even after their almost-kiss moment, Belly decides to move on for good. Conrad admits to it and says that he wanted to give it to her but couldn’t. They flirt with each other and are about to kiss when they are interrupted by a firework set off by Jeremiah. This encounter makes Belly believe that Conrad has feelings for her, and she is going to get her summer wish of being able to kiss him. It was also her friendship with the other characters, and most of all, it was the friendship of Lauren and Susannah that made this such a special watch for us. Which is why when Conrad gives her the necklace he had bought for her, she doesn’t accept it and tells him that he is too late, meaning she is going to the ball with Jeremiah. They go on a few dates, and she seems to be having a good time, but is clearly not over Conrad. She even goes on to ask him to be her escort to the debutante ball, and he agrees. Cam is the guy Belly goes out with when she decides not to spend her summer moping about Conrad, and good for her for that decision. This fact seems to be clear to Belly as well, right from the moment he flirts with her on her first night in their house to when he crashes her date with Cam. However, despite all her pining, she does not wait for him to come around. Because at the Fourth of July celebrations, Belly gets extremely drunk and flirts with Conrad. She slyly confronts him about the necklace she found in his stuff and tells him she has figured out that he bought it for her birthday. As for the audience, it is pretty clear to us that Conrad reciprocates Belly’s feelings for him, though he is not expressing them. “The Summer I Turned Pretty” is a sweet story about Belly, a shy teenager, coming into her own during a summer spent with her friends and family. Any rocky phase they may have had in their friendship had to come from a frustrating concern for each other, which they got over, with heartbreaking respect for the other’s choices.

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Everything to Know About Season 2 of <i>The Summer I Turned ... (ELLE.com)

The show stars newcomer Lola Tung, Jackie Chung, Rachel Blanchard, Christopher Briney, Gavin Casalegno, Sean Kaufman, Alfredo Narciso and Minnie Mills, Colin ...

They're still all trying to have a “normal” summer together, but that proves to be more and more challenging. Yes, Deadline reports that the second season will definitely be happening. That might mean viewers haven't had a chance to binge the show and get obsessed with it, but it sure sounds like they will.

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Here Are the Real Ages of the Cast of "The Summer I Turned Pretty" (Seventeen.com)

Lola Tung as Isabel "Belly" Conklin · Sean Kaufman as Steven Conklin · Gavin Casalegno as Jeremiah Fisher · Christopher Briney as Conrad Fisher · Jackie Chung as ...

Nicole is a little older than Belly as her debutante sister and mentor. Steven's girlfriend and fellow debutante Shayla is 16 just like Belly, but Minnie is a little older in real life. Belly's polar-opposite BFF Taylor is the same age as her, but the actress who plays her may be a little older in real life. According to Famous Birthdays, the actor was born in 2000 and if the math is mathing, that means he's either 21 or 22. Age: early 20s So, if you're wondering just how much older the actors are than the characters they portray on the show, look no further.

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The Summer I Turned Pretty Stars, EP Break Down Belly's Choice ... (TVLine)

'The Summer I Turned Pretty' EP, cast talk Belly's choice between Conrad and Jeremiah, how finale's love triangle ending differs from book.

Han was also excited to translate a particular Belly and Conrad moment from the first book to the first episode. “You just never know if you’re going to get more than one season of something, and so I did want it to feel really complete. Han also shuffled around the timeline of the book trilogy, shifting Belly and Jeremiah’s first smooch from the second novel It’s Not Summer Without You to this season’s fifth episode. It’s really almost like time stops for a minute and you just have to go with it.” In this very moment [in] the last scene, she’s there with Conrad, and that’s what’s happening in the moment, but it’s definitely not the end of the story.” (Indeed, the series received an early Season 2 renewal last week.) The Summer I Turned Pretty‘s finale began with Belly declaring to her brother Steven that she’s chosen to be with her easygoing friend Jeremiah. But after his brother Conrad stepped in when Jeremiah went MIA during Belly’s debutante ball dance, it seemed like Belly’s feelings for her broody first love/crush were resurfacing.

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