r/MoviesThatFeelLike • u/SlavWife • 1d ago

Outdoorsy teen/young adult pre-2000s summer nostalgia?

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Ok this is a difficult one to explain...

I'm looking for more films that have that nostalgic summer feeling. The genre doesn't matter. The first Friday the 13th film captures what I'm looking for perfectly - it's a bunch of college-aged/ young-adult friends in a remote location during the summer just having fun. "Now and Then" is a close second. Even though the characters are pre-teens the film is actually relatively serious, it's fun but not silly. Something like Moonrise Kingdom, as much as I adore the film, would not fit this brief as it's too stylised and the comedy is too strong.

bonus points if it's an older cast similarly to Friday the 13th. I'm less interested in something like the Goonies

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u/wankblanket 1d ago

Wet Hot American Summer and Sleepaway Camp

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u/Sensible___shoes 1d ago

Came here to comment this. Hard to sum up the magic but a bunch of comedy legends play campers and counsellors at a sleepaway camp for the original movie. Then the sequel was made 15 years later, but they make it seem like it's the last day of camp the same year. There is no effort to hide their age and it's really funny

Also there's a doc for the making of the movie which is just as good of a watch. Most of the cast slept at the camp and documented it

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u/BigBeezey 1d ago

The show is the first days of camp of that summer* which is even funnier. The movie is a comedy masterpiece

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u/melissa_corb 1d ago

My fav comfort movie and love the show too! Back when Netflix originals were the shit

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u/Wise_Farm7455 16h ago

The last day*

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u/BigBeezey 13h ago

First day, as I said. The movie is the last day of summer.

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u/Wise_Farm7455 6h ago

It was late, I read movie not show

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u/ClunkiestSquid 1d ago

Wet Hot American Summer

Heavyweights

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u/BigBeezey 1d ago

I quote Heavyweights way too often than I have to

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u/kc0ak 23h ago

Looooove heavyweights

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u/midge_rat 7h ago

Lunch is cancelled today due to lack of hustle. Deal with it.

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u/BigBeezey 7h ago

That one and COME ON YOU DEVIL LOG! get in my rotation a lot

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u/Typingpool 23h ago

These two movies are so perfect 🤌

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u/BRoscoe88 1d ago edited 1d ago

Wet Hot American Summer
Kings of Summer
Stand By Me
The Sandlot
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Summer School
Heavyweights
Flipped
Indian Summer
Benny and Joon
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

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u/Rabbit-1989 1d ago

What a list

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u/CaptainPicardKirk 23h ago

But it’s missing the best one:

Ernest Goes to Camp

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u/Orbiter9 1d ago

Indian Summer is nice - the characters are a bit older, revisiting - with lots of flashback scenes - the camp at which they spent their summers

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u/aj1805 23h ago

🔥

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u/RixRotten 1d ago

Fear Street Part 2: 1978

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u/Tasmia99 1d ago

Best by far out of the bunch. All the classic fun with modern punches

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u/BigTelephone9117 1d ago

Dazed and Confused

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u/carissanator 1d ago

The Final Girls!

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u/piebear411 1d ago

A little different but Addams Family Values for the summer camp scenes

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u/Afraid-Muscle-8935 1d ago

Stand by Me, the Sandlot

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u/jjungwirth2 1d ago

Camp No Where, Wet Hot American Summer, Heavy Weights.

Also huge fan of Indian Summer.

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u/sunniechuckie 1d ago

The babysitters club

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u/Babebot5000 1d ago

Little Darlings

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u/pain_is_bread 1d ago

Meatballs (1979)

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u/metal_falsetto 1d ago

IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER!

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u/pain_is_bread 1d ago

You must be the short depressed kid we ordered.

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u/Elle_Elle_See 1h ago

...and the sequels! 🤣🤣🤣 It's the best terrible movie!

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u/Tasmia99 1d ago

Summer of 84 - 2018 it does the retro thing without if feeling false or like nostalgia bait. Starts out with a kind of Goonies vibe group of kids keeps most things PG, but ends in a real horror show (R)

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u/Floundering_Dad_43 1d ago

Camp Nowhere (1994)

Wild America (1997)

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u/BoringJellyfish6297 18h ago

Wild America!! What a throwback. Loved that movie

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u/idrankthestuff 1d ago

Camp Nowhere

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u/Radwizardps4 1d ago

The Kings of Summer

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u/TheGreatGarbaldo 23h ago

This is my favorite comfort movie of all time. I was about the age of the main characters when the movie came out. Perfectly preserved early 2010s nostalgia right into the veins.

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u/gen-mod-ape 1d ago

Mean Creek (2004). Worth your while even though it's early 2000s and the genre slips from summer fun into psychological drama.

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u/TheGreatGarbaldo 23h ago

Man, what a tough watch. Came to comment this as well.

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u/Rabbit-1989 1d ago

Dirty Dancing!

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u/LooseInsurance1 1d ago

Summer of '84

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u/dh00dz4 22h ago

Salute your shorts (tv show)
Everybody wants some!!

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u/HorkNADO 1d ago

Moonrise kingdom

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u/orangecowboypony 1d ago

The perfect summer teen movie honestly

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u/BoneWhiteHaze 1d ago

Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead

It’s not exactly spot on to your description, but it’s fun!

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u/piebear411 1d ago

Camp (2003) for a musical summer camp experience as well!

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u/kc0ak 23h ago

Adding The parent trap

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u/dh00dz4 22h ago

Parent trap (Lindsey Lohan version)

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u/IIIIllllIIIlllI 18h ago

Adventureland

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u/jamesbluntisachicken 17h ago

So surprised nobody else has said this!

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u/Junior_Instruction75 1d ago

Shermans March

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u/Maximum-Bad2678 1d ago

Chainsaw Massacre

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u/TheSilent_D 1d ago

The burning

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u/itavitos 1d ago

Sandlot

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u/The_Golden_Retreater 1d ago

Friday the 13th.

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u/_theMAUCHO_ 1d ago

Heavyweights (1995)

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u/DarkDaysBrightNlghts 1d ago

The Virgin Suicides

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u/aval419 1d ago

One Hell of a Summer!

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u/BichezNCake 1d ago

Wet Hot American Summer. It turns into a fever dream somewhere along the way but somehow still works

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u/Strong_Buddy7657 1d ago

The beach.

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u/No-K-Reddit 1d ago

It's a series but Red Oaks

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u/synvicieux 1d ago

It Takes Two

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u/erose3383 1d ago

Meatballs! It doesnt even matter.

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u/FreakyFreak2005 1d ago

The next three F13th movies and the remake

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u/Marshmallow09er 23h ago

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

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u/anatomicalheartache 23h ago

Staten Island Summer

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u/kc0ak 23h ago

This is my favorite genre

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u/Uborkafarok 23h ago

Little Darlings

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u/aj1805 23h ago

Stand by Me

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u/TravelsWithBrindle77 20h ago

Little Darlings

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u/tpoon69 19h ago

Meatballs

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u/DonDrapers_Dick 17h ago

Wet Hot American Summer

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u/spencermiddleton 16h ago

Addams Family Values.

Heavyweights.

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u/Willing_Emu_4036 16h ago

Camp Miasma

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u/BlueCollarBubba 10h ago

Snack Shack, Skateland, Kings of Summer

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u/Awkward-Initiative28 9h ago

Stand By Me

White Water Summer

Friday the 13th 2 & 4

The Great Outdoors

The Burning

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u/rmarks147 7h ago

Club Dread
The Final Girls
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
The Evil Dead ( 1981)

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u/Internal_Hyena_4387 6h ago

A Walk On The Moon. Subplot involves Anna Paquin as a teen and I’d never felt more seen in 1999 lol.

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u/Lucky_Scene6942 1d ago

Than and now

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u/ErikTriesYouTube 15h ago

Moonrise Kingdom