| Summer Heat | |
| Director: | Michie Gleason |
| Producer: | William Tennant |
| Music: | Richard Stone |
| Cinematography: | Elliot Davis |
| Editing: | Mary Bauer |
| Runtime: | 80 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.