Summer Heat (1987 film)

Summer Heat is a 1987 film drama written and directed by Michie Gleason, with a screenplay by Michie Gleason based on the novel Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail by Louise Shivers. It stars Lori Singer.

Plot
In rural North Carolina in the post-Depression late 1930s, Roxy Walston is only 17 when she marries a boy she knows, Aaron. They have a child (called Baby) and live and work on a farm that raises tobacco. Roxy's father, who operates a mortuary, sends a young drifter named Jack Ruffin their way to be a farmhand. Jack has an affair with Roxy, with tragic results.

Cast

 * Lori Singer as Roxy Walston
 * Anthony Edwards as Aaron Walston
 * Bruce Abbott as Jack Ruffin
 * Kathy Bates as Ruth
 * Clu Gulager as Will
 * Dorothy McGuire as Narrator (voice)