Above the average in ideas and general good humour for the high-school comedy of the mid Eighties, this film's raison d'être lies in the letters a lovestruck girl pens to the boy next door. In turn she decides to rewrite the letters he's written to the nubile 17-year-old of his dreams. Certain letters get into certain other hands and in no time at all the boy's mother is on the verge of an affair with the sexbomb's father, while the boy's father is responding to the overtures of the sexbomb's mother. There are genetic improbabilities in all this (a blonde daughter of parents with raven-dark hair for openers) but some funny lines, too. 'What'd you think I should wear? ' asks the sexbomb. 'Oh' says her friend, the letter-writing cause of all the trouble, 'something demure.' 'Oh', says the sexbomb. 'Christian Demure. I got tons of her stuff.' The inept Romeo duly gets his date with her. 'What should I do? ' he gasps. 'Grow a moustache,' suggests the girl next door. 'Well,' he considers, 'if you can do it, I can.


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