If your July 1 weekend includes big, dumb laughs or chilling scares, you could do much worse than enjoy a frosty beverage and take in a few of these 10 homegrown semi-classics. Click into the slideshow at right for the movies with clips. The first six in the slideshow are comedies—“Party time! Excellent!”—then come the horror. Hurry and watch, because “The ice is going to break!”
This article appears in Jun 30 – Jul 6, 2011.