This 'teenage rebel' film for the Eighties has a magazine cover cast but no likeable people. Director William Richert's own script endows his characters with no commendable facets, allowing them only to sulk and scowl through the story of a working-class 17-year-old (River Phoenix) who has a rich girl on the hook but can't resist bonking everything else in sight while she keeps him waiting. Only Ann Magnuson, deservedly second-billed, as a Mrs Robinson of the blue-collar belt, brings any warmth and wistfulness to this would-be nostalgic tale. Phoenix, playing like Mickey Rourke on heat, gives the worst performance of his too-brief career.


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