A 1969 teen comedy where lying about losing your virginity goes hilariously, catastrophically wrong.
With the coming of summer, three high school buddies--Kenny Leeds, Mike Decker, and Tommy Kingsley--anticipate their initiation into the pleasures of manhood. But Kenny is separated from his friends and sent to stay with his grandparents in Buffalo while his father, a widowed salesman, leaves on a business trip with his secretary-fiancée. Bored and alone in a strange city, Kenny writes his two friends letters about his adventures at "Rosie's," a fictitious brothel across the Canadian border in Niagara Falls. His lie quickly backfires.
Acting
Jacqueline Bisset elevates every scene she's barely in.
Direction
Neilson mines genuine pathos from pure male embarrassment.
Director
James Neilson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of Wes Stern's few leading roles; he'd mostly do TV guest spots afterward. The film itself was barely released and fell into obscurity until recent rediscovery.
Released the same year as Easy Rider and Midnight Cowboy, this represents the dying gasp of squeaky-clean teen sex comedies before the New Hollywood revolution made them actually honest about desire.
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