What are the best summer movies of all time?

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.

Follow WTOP Film Critic Jason Fraley on Twitter @AboveTheJFray, read his blog The Film Spectrum or listen Friday mornings on 103.5 FM.

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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