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A Summer Place
Television (Full Length) – 1995
The veneer comes off and you revert to being a happy primate.– Keri Hulme
I’ve always liked baches and when they are ugly I like them because they are so ugly.– Sam Hunt
But the beauty of the bach has always been the freedom to interpret the form. It is folk art or folk architecture ... unconstrained by convention, uncluttered by aesthetic concerns.– From the film's narration
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