The director, Lewis John Carlino, rather than the title, raises hopes that this might be, or aim, a bit above the average youth movie. Perhaps it is, or does, but not enough so to earn it a High-School Equivalency. The sticky situation, of a prep schooler involved in a romance with his roommate's mother, has little of the hot stuff of the director's Sailor Who Fell from Grace, and little of the sensitive stuff of his Great Santini. As to the latter, the two roommates each get to go around in a stew for a while, before they patch things up in mud and blood, but the woman is pretty much lost in the shuffle. Of all the actors, Stuart Margolin comes off best as a state investigator with Gordon Liddy's eyes and mustache -- but he, it is significant, is not intended to be human. With Andrew McCarthy, Rob Lowe, and Jacqueline Bisset. (1983) — Duncan Shepherd
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