The dried up paint has fallen off of this relic of young adult love, and even though Susan Dey and William Katt seemingly appear to be great casting, the script gives them a really dull story. After ending a fling with sultry Beverly D'Angelo, Katt immediately sets his sights on college classmate Dey who is sarcastic and distant at first, but once he agrees to go to a symphony with her, she's willing to take the relationship to a new level. But she's really in love with an older married man so she keeps putting Katt off yet coming back when she has the need.
This film has absolutely no humor and the two leads no chemistry. Katt is enigmatic and gentle, but Dey seems to be playing games with him, confiding her darkest secrets to at one minute then pushing him away the next. He's not entirely free of D'Angelo either who should have been the lead as she had more screen presence than Dey who seems rather icy as a leading lady. The best scene with them is inside the huge playhouse that Dey shows him but then breaks down due to its significance to the darkness of her past.
So what do you really get out of this? That a young woman chooses to love an older man because of unfinished feelings concerning her father, or that she'll shun someone she really likes yet use him for company and be jealous when she sees him talking to another woman, even if she's with the man she claims to love. This film has a mixed up view of what young love is as these are college aged kids (possibly graduate school age) and even how 20 somethings behave in their struggles with love. It's a weak soap opera that fails to resonate even with the age of the audience it's reaching out to which is too bad because it has the right idea, just not the proper execution.
This film has absolutely no humor and the two leads no chemistry. Katt is enigmatic and gentle, but Dey seems to be playing games with him, confiding her darkest secrets to at one minute then pushing him away the next. He's not entirely free of D'Angelo either who should have been the lead as she had more screen presence than Dey who seems rather icy as a leading lady. The best scene with them is inside the huge playhouse that Dey shows him but then breaks down due to its significance to the darkness of her past.
So what do you really get out of this? That a young woman chooses to love an older man because of unfinished feelings concerning her father, or that she'll shun someone she really likes yet use him for company and be jealous when she sees him talking to another woman, even if she's with the man she claims to love. This film has a mixed up view of what young love is as these are college aged kids (possibly graduate school age) and even how 20 somethings behave in their struggles with love. It's a weak soap opera that fails to resonate even with the age of the audience it's reaching out to which is too bad because it has the right idea, just not the proper execution.