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19 Summer Movies We Can't Wait To Watch

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Lawn games, road trips, and easy breezy fashion always give us that instant vacation feeling, but you can't have summer without some fun and light-hearted summer movies! With beaches, best friends, summer camp nostalgia, and lots of color, these flicks will provide some serious entertainment, indoors or out.

Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between: Streaming On Netflix July 6

Clare and Aidan made a pact to break up before college, and decide to make their last evening as a couple the most epic date night ever. They retrace their relationship from the beginning, but the closer they get to goodbye, the more they wonder whether they should have even made the pact in the first place.

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants summer movies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Stream on HBO Max

Tibby, Bridget, ​Carmen, and Lena aren't thrilled that they're spending the summer apart for the first time. When the girls find a pair of jeans that somehow fits all four of them, and decide to pass it between them all summer, they don't feel so far away anymore.

A Week Away

Netflix

A Week Away: Stream on Netflix

Will has an important to choice to make: juvie or summer camp. He picks the latter, but is totally unprepared for the love, friendships, and hope that he discovers in this Netflix original musical.

Where The Crawdads Sing: In Theaters July 15, 2022

Kya Clark lives alone in 1960s North Carolina after her family abandons her. Learning about love, life, and the natural world as she grows up, Kya is usually undisturbed...until she's the main suspect in the murder trial of golden boy Chase Andrews.

Summer '03

Big Cat Productions/Blue Fox Entertainment

Summer '03: Stream on Amazon Prime

Jamie and her family are surprised when her grandmother waits until she's on her deathbed to unveil a variety of family secrets.

Together, Together

Bleeker Street/Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions

Together, Together: Stream On Hulu

Matt is an app developer in his 40s who really wants a child and picks 20-something Anna as his surrogate. Even though they both know that their lives are about to change, they aren't expecting the friendship that develops.

Rip Tide

Netflix/MarVista Entertainment/Umbrella Entertainment

Rip Tide: Stream on Netflix

After an embarrassing video goes viral, supermodel Cora goes to stay with her aunt in Australia, where she discovers a new passion, finds love, and learns to surf.

Finding Ohana

Netflix

Finding Ohana: Stream on Netflix

Pili and Loane get more than they bargained for on their trip to O'ahu when a journal sets them on a treasure hunt and they have the opportunity to reconnect with their Hawaiian heritage.

Secret Life of Pets summer movies

Illumination Entertainment/Universal Pictures

Secret Life of Pets: Rent on Amazon

Going on a mission around NYC with your best friends sounds like an exciting summer, and that's exactly what happens in this family-friendly film. Max spends every day socializing with the other animals in his building while their owners are at work until he, along with his new brother Duke, get lost in the city. The other animals decide to go on a quest to find them.

Safe Haven

Relativity Media/Temple Hill Entertainment

Safe Haven: Stream on Hulu

After a terrible accident, Katie flees Boston and moves to Southport, North Carolina. She meets widower Alex and realizes that she can't run from her past forever.

A Perfect Pairing: Stream on Netflix on May 19, 2022

Lola quits her wine company sales job to start her own wine distribution company. In need of clients, she travels to Australia to book a client that's not too interested in working with her.

Crazy Rich Asians

Warner Bros. Pictures/SK Global Entertainment/Starlight Culture Entertainment/Color Force/Ivanhoe Pictures/Electric Somewhere

Crazy Rich Asians: Rent on Amazon

NYU economics professor Rachel agrees to travel to Singapore to attend the wedding of her boyfriend's best friend. She doesn't realize, however, that her boyfriend is a member of one of the oldest and most famous families in the country. The summer is full of friendships, unexpected rivalry, and mahjong.

Booksmart

United Artists Releasing/Annapurna Pictures/Gloria Sanchez Productions

Booksmart: Stream on Hulu

Amy and Molly spent all of high school studying so that they could get into their dream schools. When they realize that all of the party kids got into Ivy Leagues as well, they decide to break all the rules on their last day of class.

Secret Life of Bees

Fox Searchlight Pictures/The Donners' Company/Overbrook Entertainment

Secret Life of Bees: Stream on HBO Max

Dealing with personal difficulty and the social unrest of the 1960s, Lily runs away from her abusive and widower father and discovers a family of women who have a connection to her mother.

Finding Nemo summer movies

Buena Vista Pictures Distribution/Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios

Finding Nemo: Stream on Disney Plus

Marlin and Dory travel across the ocean after Marlin's son Nemo is captured by divers and ends up in a dentist's fish tank.

The Parent Trap

Buena Vista Distribution/Walt Disney Productions/Walt Disney Pictures/Buena Vista Pictures Distribution

The Parent Trap: Stream Both the 1998 and 1961 on Disney+

Annie and Hallie (Sharon and Susan in the original) meet at summer camp and realize that they're twins separated at birth. Then they hatch a plan to switch places and set their parents back up.

Raya and the Last Dragon

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Walt Disney Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures

Raya and the Last Dragon: Stream on Disney Plus

In Kumandra, humans and dragons lived in harmony until the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity from the evil Druun. 500 years later, the Druun have returned and Raya must track down the last dragon and save the world.

Downton Abbey: A New Era: See It In Theaters On May 20, 2022

After the dowager countess reveals she inherited a villa in the South of France, half the Crawley family travels to France, while the other half stays at Downton to work with the Hollywood crew who wants to film on the property.
In the Heights summer movies
5000 Broadway Productions/Barrio Grrrl! Productions/Likely Story/SGS Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures

In the Heights: Stream On HBO Max

Based on the musical by Lin Manuel Miranda, Usnavi runs a local bodega in a close-knit Washington Heights community that's full of people who dream about a better life. The summer turns upside down when Usnavi realizes that he sold a winning lottery ticket for $96,000.

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