Summer Lovers (1982)

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OK, here's one you might have caught on HBO in the early 1980s (where I first saw it). Called Summer Lovers, this is what I'd call a early 80s "fantasy lovers" flick. It features Daryl Hannah in a early pre-Splash role. Also featuing Peter Gallagher as the lucky stiff with not one but two girlfriends (a early "threesomes" deal and French actress Valérie Quennessen (who tragically perished in a 1989 auto accident) as the "third wheel". She's quite the knockout in this film.

Amazon page for Summer Lovers DVD

Wiki Article on Summer Lovers


NSFW ALERT on YouTube Excerpt

Film Excerpt on YouTube (I'm So Excited) NSFW ALERT!!

Excerpt:
"Michael and Cathy, a young couple who have just graduated from college, have known each other about 10 years and have been together about half that time. They vacation for the summer on a Greek island. When they visit a nude beach crowded with other young tourists, they are hesitant at first but find themselves getting caught up in the uninhibited energy that surrounds them.

Cathy reads a book of sexual techniques, then ties Michael to the bed and drips candle wax on his chest. She comments that everyone thinks she's "such a Goody Two-Shoes" but she wants a little more adventure.

Michael, who says he has never been with another woman, keeps noticing Lina, a French archaeologist on temporary assignment at the nearby Akrotiri excavation. One day, at the beach without Cathy, he gets his chance to talk to Lina and ends up starting an affair with her. He then feels so guilty that Cathy immediately notices something is wrong, and he admits what he has done, insisting that he still loves Cathy.

Cathy is naturally disturbed by this, but tells him to get it out of his system, which he takes as permission to return to Lina. Cathy then goes to a local bar intending to sleep with another man as a way to get revenge against Michael for cheating on her. But in the end she chickens out after getting picked up by an amorous local boy. When Michael comes home later after seeing Lina again, Cathy says she wants out of the relationship.

Cathy goes to Lina's home to confront her. Lina assures Cathy that she does not intend to take Michael away from her, which seems to calm Cathy somewhat. Lina and Cathy end up spending several hours together getting acquainted, and find themselves fascinated by each other's work—Lina's archeology and Cathy's photography."