This is basically just another Hollywood 'summer camp' story with a rather distasteful story about two girls involved in a bet about who will lose her virginity first. In this instance, however, the playing overcomes the formula development of Kimi Peck and Dalene Young's screenplay. In particular Kristy McNichol (whose career has not progressed since as it should have done), as a tough teenager with a sleep-around divorcee mother, is so true, so natural in the conveying of inner feelings as to leave you gasping for more. All the sadness and cynicism of 15 years of rootless existence is expressed in these brown eyes. It's a performance deserving of the Oscar nomination it didn't get.

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