Actors: Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw,
Jack Klugman, Nan Martin, Michael Meyers, Lori Shelle, Royce Wallace
Rating: 7 out of 10, A reach back to
the late 1960s for a movie that fascinated a young version of myself when it
first came out. It didn’t hurt that it featured Ali McGraw. I don’t think there’s
a single guy my age that didn’t fall in love with Ms. MacGraw in the late
1960s. We all wished we were the ones sitting next to her at the dinner table
in this movie, for a number of reasons. She plays a pampered Radcliff college
girl and poster child for Jewish American Princesses everywhere who’s dabbling
in romance with an unacceptable suitor to defy her doting parents. It’s more
about class as the suitor comes from the old neighborhood before the girl’s parents
successfully moved to the suburbs as nouveau riche. It was also reminiscent of
the sexual politics facing the onslaught of the 1960s as good girls were
expected to save themselves for marriage. There are some very funny moments as the
guy deals with a hostile mother, a latent homosexual brother lost reliving his
college athletic prowess, and the little sister from hell. While some of the movie hasn’t aged well, like
the heavy handed caricatures of life in the well to do suburbs, Ms. MacGraw is
still luminescent
MVP: Ali MacGraw as the object of adolescent
love Brenda
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