This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

The greatest movie ever made..!

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

I played the part of Jerry and I agree 100% that this movie was probably the worst movie ever created and sends a terrible message to teens. Oh, by the way the movie was filmed in 1989, so for all of you that said the hair and wardrobe were outdated, well you now know why. That still doesn't excuse the way everyone was costumed, especially Pamela! I was hurt by one of the reviews/ comments made by wadechurton that said,"In addition, notice that the only boys who are interested in Pamela seem remarkably less-than-macho" Really wadechurton? I thought good Christians didn't judge people or put people down. Talk about destroying one's self confidence! Anyway, I apologize the movie was so horrible. If you got anything from the movie, hopefully a ton of laughs on the horrendous acting and just the worst attempt in history in creating a movie!

A better title for this movie would be, "Virgin/Whore Complex: The Movie". It is SO CREEPY. It's not even about the title character, Pamela. It's about her dad and his unsettling obsession with her virginity. The message of this movie is simple: if, as a girl, you EVER even kiss a boy, you are ruined forever. In fact, Pamela's best friend does the unthinkable and acts like a NORMAL teenage girl, even going so far as to have a *gasp* boyfriend, which ends in her having sex with him. They make it very clear that the sex was consensual, but she talks about it, and acts as traumatized, as if she had been raped.This movie sends a HORRIBLE message to teens, especially girls. Not only does it enforce the classic virgin/whore complex, it also says that a girl's father should be involved in her (non)sex life to a degree that is downright terrifying. The fact that Pamela is not really developed as her own character is not an accident. Her only purpose is to do and be exactly what her father wants. She's not allowed to make her own choices or her own mistakes. She's not allowed to even make the decision to wait until her wedding day for her first kiss: it's a decision her father makes FOR her. And once she's married, she's not allowed to even make the decision to make a phone call without permission from her new husband.This is not a movie about a girl discovering the beauty of purity. This is a movie about a father's creepy FANTASY of his daughter remaining a virgin until she passes from his iron-clad ownership into that of another man. Pamela is not a person in this movie, she is property. And the fact that this is being taught as something "beautiful" or, more horrifically, "holy", is something that ought to terrify any parent with a conscience.It's important to teach teenagers that sex has consequences, and that the decision to become sexually active is one that should not be taken lightly. But this movie goes off the freaking deep end and promotes a worldview that is not only not realistic, it is insane. Any father this deeply involved in and obsessed with his child's love life in the real world would be more likely to be a sexual predator than father of the year.One final thing: if you watch this movie, and can get past the horrible acting, horrible music, and horrible writing, ask yourself one question: How would this movie, this story, have been different if the child had been a boy instead of a girl? That's the worst part of this movie: ZERO attention is paid to male sexuality. It's all about controlling or shaming the sexuality of the FEMALE characters. They try to mask this by having Pamela's eventual husband say that he made a commitment to the Lord to wait until his wedding day for his first kiss, but it's not the same as Pamela AT ALL. Pamela's husband made the decision for himself, with no one else's input, after careful prayer. Pamela had the decision made for her by her father.This movie has deep emotional issues, especially with women. Beneath the poorly written surface, there is a deep misogyny that says that women are to be the virginal property of their fathers and then their husbands, with no ambitions or desires of their own, and that if they fail to meet the expectations of their male owners, especially in the arena of sexuality, then they are ruined forever.If you have a conscience, or you're a good parent, don't watch this movie. And certainly don't show it to any teenagers.

I appreciate the message of this film. It's counter cultural, it's radical and most "worldlings" will say, "It can't be done!" Read the Gospels, the same things were being thought and said when Jesus was teaching the people.The message is not wrong, it's just very difficult to hear in this day and age when everywhere you go the message is that you are to try a bunch of people out until you meet "the one." That is, until they annoy you or get in your way, and then you divorce them and find another "the one." Serial dating trains for serial monogamy, multiple marriages and divorces.The movie also didn't do a very good job in showing how a young girl could be raised and interact with others her age to eventually meet the man she would marry. It should have shown her at church and at friend's houses (with parent's present) and other things for young people and families: picnics, bowling, hiking, amusement parks ... all the stuff that kids can and should do ... just not pairing off alone like people do today.Then it could have shown how over a reasonable amount of time, the girl and boy got to know each other, went to church together, talked about their faith and then it would be more natural to lead to the point of him asking her father for her hand in marriage.However, the acting is awful. The writing is painfully bad at times. But, I think the costumes and hair were extremely accurate as the story takes place in the mid/late 1980's and early 1990's. Believe me, I was there, and I am stunned that this film was made in 1998! The filmmakers must have raided a thrift store filled to the rafters with stuff from the 80's.I realize these actors are all amateurs. However, we have more and more films being made by decidedly Christian writers and directors and actors. Can't we have more education in the area of acting and writing and directing? Isn't there a school that doesn't compromise moral values while at the same time teaching what needs to be learned here to the modern day audience? We've all spent thousands of hours watching movies and have become quite expert in discerning quality versus junk.We need better than this! It's right to realize that films can be a great evangelizing tool. God Bless

Corny yet sweet. I totally understand their message of no sex before marriage but I think the "no kissing" idea and that the first kiss is going to be a gift for your husband on your wedding night- I think thats a little too ridiculous and 99% of the kids of today are not going to follow that. They might even miss the whole message of the movie because they view that statement as absurd. It also has no biblical merit or passage that I know of where you cant kiss or date. It sounds like a man-made idea/rule. I think when Pamela asked: "how do I meet my future husband if I cant date" -was a very realistic question. She also asked her dad to give her a passage from the bible that forbid dating. I don't think dad had any ammunition in that argument. He pretty much gave her a "because I'm your father" kind of an answer. She was right in her question and I think most kids watching that film would shake their head at the absurdity that you cant date your future spouse. It struck me as odd that she couldn't go to a basketball game with her friends and that guy- as a group- but yet it was OK with her dad for her to leave with his employee and go to the wilderness to look at rock formations all by themselves. Think about it, she had more chance of getting laid out there in the wilderness, with just he and her there, than she did by going to a basketball game with her friends and a guy and a huge crowd..... That rock formation scene really contradicted the whole theme of the movie, no dating, no boys. Remember when she asked if they could go to the ball game as friends and he shot her this look like "Uh No!!" you cant do that either. Yet she goes off alone with this guy to look at rocks. I found it odd that dad always talked in this preacher voice. What dad talks like that all the time? It seemed this movie had the right intentions but should have showed an alternative to being told no and then going upstairs where she is now sad and alone. I think if the writers would have inserted some alternative for her such as having friends over or getting together at Christian events it would have portrayed a better picture than a sad, bored, girl whose Christian beliefs have prevented her from having any type of fun and here she sits lonely on her bed sad and depressed. It paints the Chrisitan life as one of loneliness. This movie looked like it was from the 1980's. The guys hair styles were dead-on to the hairstyles of 1986. Even the production credits looked "old timey" I wonder if this movie was made in the 80's but not released until 1998?Lastly I think they could have left out the line that the dad said "Do you know what a Christian Film Library is"? I laughed out loud at the absurdity of that sentence. Its like asking "do you know how a boiled egg is cooked"?I think its the corny, cheesy, lines like this that turn people away from watching more Christian films. Most people view Christian films as lame and lacking in the writing with no suspense or drama. I think a lot people are hungry for a Christian movie but yet are bored with the lameness and blandness of Christian movies like this. Nothing against the Christian message, I just mean Christian films could be more intelligently written to appeal to the youth that are growing up in the 21st century. This isn't Amish country 1930. We can pretty much understand what a Christian Film Library is there's no need to ask if we know what it means. By the way I am a Christian so I am not trying to demean the message, just commenting on the way it was presented and how it was missing the mark in some ways.