The Summer Book

2024

English

6.5

♡ 5

81%

Action

based on novel or book

grandparent grandchild relationship

Charlie McDowell Director

Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson as Eriksson

Anders Danielsen Lie as Father

Glenn Close as Grandmother

Pekka Strang as Mr. Malander

The story of the relationship between Sophia, an eight-year-old girl who is growing up fast, and her grandmother, who is nearing the end of her life. They are spending time together with Sophia’s father, at the family summer house on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. All three are coming to terms with the recent death of Sophia’s mother in very different ways.