abstract:The Long Hot Summer is a 1985 television film and remake of the 1958 film of the same name. When drifter "Ben Quick" arrives in a small Mississippi town, "Will Varner", a family patriarch, sees Ben as a better choice to inherit the family business than his only son, "Jody".
On Memorial Day we are all small town America, honoring the sacrifices of our war dead and wounded while celebrating the simple freedoms of the first longhotsummer weekend.
Not long ago we thought this speech would be dominated by the riots, by Britain's longhotsummer, but instead it was overshadowed by the economic storm still breaking around our heads.