WASHINGTON – Families taking summer vacations. Coming of age journeys before school starts. And graduates coming home after school ends.

Movies have captured every emotion associated with the good old summertime.

Click the gallery to the right to see my Top 30 Summer Movies of All Time, not necessarily in order of greatness, but by how well each evokes the summer.

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