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The Summer Book (2025) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 2025 · 1 h 30 m · English
- Echo score 69
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- Directed by
- Charlie McDowell
- Starring
- Glenn Close, Anders Danielsen Lie, Sophia Heikkilä, Pekka Strang, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Tove Jansson
- Budget
- $5M
In a secluded Finnish island home, young Sophia spends the summer wandering the woods, tide‑pools and meadows, guided by her father and her wise grandmother (Glenn Close). The adaptation of Tove Jansson’s cherished novel paints a gentle, intergenerational portrait of wonder, discovery and the quiet passage of time as the child learns about nature, love and aging.
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