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I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

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Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 41
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 26

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Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 6

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Movie Info

During the annual July 4th festivities in a North Carolina fishing town, Helen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) wins a local beauty contest and departs with her boyfriend Barry (Ryan Philippe) and pals Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.). On their way back home, Ray hits a fisherman with her car. The teens panic, drop the body in the water, and abandon the scene. Many months later when Julie returns from college, she gets an anonymous note: "I know what you did last summer." The

R, 1 hr. 41 min.

Horror

Directed By: Jim Gillespie

Written By: Kevin Williamson

In Theaters: Oct 17, 1997 Wide

On DVD: Aug 7, 2001

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

I Know What You Did Last Summer Trailer & Photos

Cast

Jennifer Love Hewitt
Julie James
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Helen Shivers
Ryan Phillippe
Barry Cox
Freddie Prinze Jr.
Ray Bronson
Muse Watson
Benjamin Willis
Anne Heche
Melissa Egan
Bridgette Wilson
Elsa Shivers
Johnny Galecki
Max

Critic Reviews for I Know What You Did Last Summer

All Critics (52) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (26) | DVD (16)

...competent but uninspired...

June 18, 2002 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

A smart, sharply drawn genre film with a moral center and a solid cast.

January 22, 2002 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Richard Harrington

Washington Post

Top Critic

...fun, energetic and fairly scary.

February 14, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times

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Kevin Thomas

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

Teasing and taut, I Know What You Did Last Summer is a teen horror flick with a different kind of kick to it.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee

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Joe Baltake

Sacramento Bee

Top Critic

Remember all those terrible slasher flicks from the '80s? This could be one of them. It certainly ain't no Scream.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Detroit News

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Susan Stark

Detroit News

Top Critic

Predictably, the derivative title here is a jumping-off point for another derivative slasher-revenge pic.

January 1, 2000 Comment

Mike Clark

USA Today

Top Critic

This horror movie is too intense for kids.

December 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Charles Cassady

Common Sense Media

It can't even lay claim to the thin joy of being a tremendously bad and trashy wallow in the gutter. It's just... useless.

July 19, 2009 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy

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Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

...a tedious, distinctly by-the-numbers slasher flick.

June 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

A reasonably well-made low-end pic that serves as a cautionary tale for callow teens. [Blu-Ray]

July 21, 2008 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews

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Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews Source: Groucho Reviews

A depressingly routine slasher film.

September 24, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

Often feels more like a perfume commercial than a "horror movie".

January 24, 2004 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide

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Scott Weinberg

Apollo Guide

...has some good thrills and some good jokes.

June 5, 2002 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine

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Melissa Morrison

Boxoffice Magazine

O ponto forte de 'P�nico' � o calcanhar de Aquiles de 'Eu Sei o Que Voc�s Fizeram no Ver�o Passado': em ambos os casos, o roteiro de Kevin Williamson.

May 31, 2002 Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena

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Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

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Yawn. So there's a group of teenagers, they kill someone, that someone comes back ... are you bored yet? Yeah me to. The classic mix of screaming beauties, testosterone riddled jocks and slightly outcast plain people running around convincing themselves that anything they do for the 90 minutes this movie lasts matters

October 9, 2011

Unknown Hobo

Super Reviewer

It wasn't that good.....but it wasn't bad eighter

March 20, 2008

Martin Sahlin

Super Reviewer

I Know What You Did Last Summer Quotes

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1. Helen Shivers: Well Bob, at summer's end I plan on moving to New York where I'll pursue a career as a serious actress. It's my goal to entertain the world through artistic expression. Through art I shall serve my country.
– Submitted by Lea L (8 months ago)
1. Helen Shivers: We should have a plan. Angela Lansbury always had a plan.
– Submitted by Lea L (8 months ago)
1. Ray Bronson: I know. The guilt was killing me, I had to know who he was, that's why I went to see Missy. I'm sorry I didn't tell you but I wanted you back, I couldn't lose you again. I love you Julie. No one gets me the way you do.
2. Julie James: I understand your pain.
– Submitted by Creep F (8 months ago)
1. Benjamin Willis: I know all about accidents and let me give you some advice, when you leave a man for dead, make sure he's really dead.
– Submitted by Creep F (8 months ago)
1. Julie James: You? Ben Willis?
2. Benjamin Willis: Good, I see you've been doing your homework too.
– Submitted by Creep F (8 months ago)

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