Franco Zeffirelli directs Martin Hewitt, Brooke Shields and Shirley Knight in this teen melodrama where an intense first sexual relationship spirals out of control when a parent tries to break things up.

Absolutely bonker, camp one-of-a-kind soap. Thank goodness John Hughes was preparing to give the sub genre a good, hard, modernising shake-up. Troughs of incoherent depression give way to bursts of manic plot twist. Mad that pre-dental work Tom Cruise rocks up for a cackling one minute monologue that acts as a complete catalyst for the rest of the narrative.

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Perfect Double Bill: The Blue Lagoon (1980)

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