The Summer Book

The Summer Book (2025)

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.

Date of release
2025-01-31
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (34)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Drama
Director
Charlie McDowell

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The Summer Book
  • Filmed in: Espoo, Kotka, and Porvoo

The Summer Book is a 2024 drama film directed by Charlie McDowell, written by Robert Jones, and starring Glenn Close, Emily Matthews, and Anders Danielsen Lie. It is based on Tove Jansson's 1972 novel of the same title. A co-production of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Finland, the film premiered at the BFI London Film Festival on 12 October 2024.

Production

In March 2023, it was announced that Close and Lie were cast in the film. The film was shot in the summer of 2023 in Finland, in the archipelagos of Kotka, Porvoo and Espoo located in the Gulf of Finland.

In July that same year, it was announced that the filmmakers were granted an interim agreement by SAG-AFTRA to allow production to occur since the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike was occurring at the time.

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