A cocky high school student thinks nothing of using the people around him to satisfy his self-centered needs, until someone in his life gets pregnant.
Acting
Kristoffer Tabori's smirking, slippery lead performance
Direction
Erman's uncomfortable intimate framing
Writing
Dialogue that ages like milk — deliberately
Director
John Erman
Kristoffer Tabori
Phil Fuller
Marlyn Mason
Yvonne
Bob Balaban
Wilkie
Lawrence Pressman
Mallory
Louise Latham
Mrs. Wilson
John Fiedler
Ames
Sherry E. DeBoer
Debbie
Denny Miller
Skeeter
Doro Merande
Librarian
Maxine Stuart
Miss Schneider
Tom Troupe
Dr. Shurtleff
David Doyle
Mr. Fanning
Dick Van Patten
Warren
Carol Arthur
Mrs. Mallory
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bob Balaban's Wilkie was early proof of his specialty: characters who disappear then devastate.
Released months before Roe v. Wade arguments, the pregnancy plot landed in a country where abortion was criminal in most states — making Yvonne's options starkly real.
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