A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away ... Ohio, 1956. So reads the printed preamble. But things are not as strange there as all that. There are two car accidents in the first five minutes, a bicycle accident fifteen minutes later, another car accident ten minutes after that, and a motorcycle accident five minutes after that. There is nothing more of that sort until the big bash-up in the final five minutes; but there are the same old recycled oldies, same old malt shop, same old drive-in restaurant and theater. The main reason for the filmmakers to return to this era seems to be to remove the easiness from the sex. There may even be some genuine nostalgia about that, but the rest of the nostalgia is synthetic. Doug McKeon, the star, has grown some since On Golden Pond, and he looks like he would be perfect for the title role in The Larry Bird Story if he were to grow a mustache and another foot. (And the baskets he consistently misses here would then have been good practice.) With Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelly Preston, and Chris Nash; directed by Mel Damski. (1985) — Duncan Shepherd
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