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Not the movie to watch with your parents

posted 19 years ago by La-z-girl_recliner
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Fortunately I was home alone when I watched it, with no nagging, aging parents to bother me. It definitely shows how much teenage girls can be quite a handful, especially if you have two of them. I personally thought it was very funny and very enjoyable. The parents in the movie reminded me of my own, noticing how stuck up dads of teenage daughters can be, and how gentle and kind moms really are. That motorcycling dude is not the kind of man your parents would want to meet. But Alice made a good choice marrying a respectable man that her father thought she would never love. I definitely recommend this movie to girls my age who can definitely relate. I hope to watch it again soon.

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[–] ariamne 18 years ago

As a nagging, aging parent myself, I found your comments about this movie very amusing. I vividly remember going to the theater to see this movie when I was about ten and thought my parents were nagging and aging at the time (my mom was not even thirty when I saw this film!) I thought it quite risque at the time, but now it comes off to me as dated and corny. To each his own.

[–] ministerwithoutportfolio 16 years ago

Risque, is right. I was a nine-year old boy and remember trying to watch it alone since the trailer/promo was so titallating. You could say this film is an exploitation film: it exploits the generation gap and sexual revolution.

[–] artistathome 17 years ago

I was 19 and engaged when this movie came out. My fiancee and I loved it and took my parents to see it the next weekend. We thought it was soooo typical of parents and teen girls in 1968...My parents said they liked it but who knows? Maybe it scared them.

I recently saw it again and it's a little cornball. But only because times have changed so much, (which is too bad). Back then sex before marriage was not so accepted and also getting married at 18 or 19 while still in college was considered fine.

I was surprised that she married Merrick. Chad Everett was really cute and all the girls liked him.
At the end of the movie, when she says "it has been going on a long time"---that means while she was underage? Or since she turned 17??
I guess she would have been legal age. And what was Merrick, 24 or what? A grad student? I wondered why none of the censors caught that comment and realized he was possibly breaking the law. But I guess age of consent is 16.

anyway--cute film and still totally enjoyable especially if you grew up during those turbulent times. It was refreshing to see something that had nothing to do with Vietnam.

Nina

[–] SweaterCannons 12 years ago

Neither is Porky's, which god alone knows why I rented one time to watch when my parents were in town visiting. Or The Crying Game, which a friend brought home from the video store when his wife sent him to get something to watch when her ultra-religious parents from South Bend were visiting. He had only heard the name of the movie and knew nothing about it. Not a good choice for watching with the in-laws as it turns out.