In the late 1960s, American pop culture had only fleetingly embraced socially ticklish subjects such as young men .
Wes Stern is Kenny-- having lost his mother some years ago, he lives with his traveling salesman father, who apparently has been uprooting the family every couple of years. Dad is secretly seeing his secretary (a plot point that is never revisited after the first 15 minutes), and plans a business/pleasure trip to Chicago; school is out, so Dad decides to send Kenny to live with his grandmother in Buffalo, NY for the summer. Ken's best friends Mike (Ricky Kelman) and Tommy (Wink Roberts) will be heading to summer camp, so the trio say their goodbyes-- for the time being.
While in Buffalo, Kenny, apparently in a fit of boredom, writes back to his pals that he's having the time of his life, including alleged frequent visits to "Rosie's", a whorehouse somewhere in the vaguely exotic locale of nearby Toronto, Canada.
Weeks later, the aggressive Mike and the timid Tommy both show up in Buffalo, holed up at a nearby hotel. They want Kenny to take them on a trip to Rosie's, so that they can share in the fun.
Of course, Rosie's doesn't exist, so Ken clumsily leads his pals on a sightseeing trip in Toronto, where they encounter Jacqueline Bisset as 'Anna', the twenty-something woman that the boys meet at a Toronto go-go bar, and dimwittedly assume is a prostitute. Anna is having some kind of barely-alluded to problems, and seeks to cross the border-- but her British origins presumably will present a problem, so the boys offer to take them with her to Buffalo-- secretly assuming that she will offer some physical favors after the day is done. Eventually, the insecurities of all the young men are laid bare, and for at least one of them, their desires will be fulfilled.
Despite being tagged as a 'sex-comedy' there really isn't any sex at all until the climax. Ms. Bisset is comely as ever, though her seeming naievete at the young men's intentions is hard to believe; also tough to believe is the gullibility of Kenny's pals when he starts leading them on a wild goose chase.. But, it helps to move the plot along..
The film is predictably tame for its time period, far from the tawdry bawdiness of the Reagan-era "Porky's" films or even the slightly-more-clever 21st-century update in the "American Pie" films.
Wes Stern is Kenny-- having lost his mother some years ago, he lives with his traveling salesman father, who apparently has been uprooting the family every couple of years. Dad is secretly seeing his secretary (a plot point that is never revisited after the first 15 minutes), and plans a business/pleasure trip to Chicago; school is out, so Dad decides to send Kenny to live with his grandmother in Buffalo, NY for the summer. Ken's best friends Mike (Ricky Kelman) and Tommy (Wink Roberts) will be heading to summer camp, so the trio say their goodbyes-- for the time being.
While in Buffalo, Kenny, apparently in a fit of boredom, writes back to his pals that he's having the time of his life, including alleged frequent visits to "Rosie's", a whorehouse somewhere in the vaguely exotic locale of nearby Toronto, Canada.
Weeks later, the aggressive Mike and the timid Tommy both show up in Buffalo, holed up at a nearby hotel. They want Kenny to take them on a trip to Rosie's, so that they can share in the fun.
Of course, Rosie's doesn't exist, so Ken clumsily leads his pals on a sightseeing trip in Toronto, where they encounter Jacqueline Bisset as 'Anna', the twenty-something woman that the boys meet at a Toronto go-go bar, and dimwittedly assume is a prostitute. Anna is having some kind of barely-alluded to problems, and seeks to cross the border-- but her British origins presumably will present a problem, so the boys offer to take them with her to Buffalo-- secretly assuming that she will offer some physical favors after the day is done. Eventually, the insecurities of all the young men are laid bare, and for at least one of them, their desires will be fulfilled.
Despite being tagged as a 'sex-comedy' there really isn't any sex at all until the climax. Ms. Bisset is comely as ever, though her seeming naievete at the young men's intentions is hard to believe; also tough to believe is the gullibility of Kenny's pals when he starts leading them on a wild goose chase.. But, it helps to move the plot along..
The film is predictably tame for its time period, far from the tawdry bawdiness of the Reagan-era "Porky's" films or even the slightly-more-clever 21st-century update in the "American Pie" films.