Summertime, 1955, David Lean

I love Summertime. Despite the cartoony opening credits, it is a sincere and deeply-moving story of a Midwestern secretary's journey to Europe. Hepburn's character, Jane Hudson, has saved a lifetime to leave her native Ohio and travel to Italy. She has come for a bit of adventure and perhaps even romance. She records every bit of her trip via a 16mm camera always on her person. By requisite, Jane meets a married Italian man and gets her heart broken amongst the dazzling Venice backdrop. The absolute beauty of Hepburn's solitude at the beginning of the trip comes full circle as she returns to America again in solitude but now with a broken heart. Upon returning, however, she is more sorrowful, wise, and somehow strong. Best Kate Line: "All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go."