good back-story, and good acting

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Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

In 1974, I graduated from my local, high school as an 18 year old boy virgin. The only thing worse than "Gay Boys" were "boy virgins". Seen this movie in 1982 proved by status as a "boy virgin" was worse than being a Birmingham Church Bomber or the guy who killed JFK or the crew that killed Sharon Tate or 4 Kent State Students who proved they are men or blowing up a black church and leave no survivors to be men to show they have what it takes like Jack Ruby's reason to shoot Oswald & he did to show that jews have guts! I graduated from my high school as a boy virgin & people in my high school decided I had no right to graduate from my local high school on June 8, 1974 & should been shot dead at a carry out the night before high school graduation, I'm sure I'm gonna get done in like Sharon Tate or Denise McNair of 9/15 incident. One scene was great was one guy who does a total comment providing the date to be (Diane Franklin) by paying for her abortion which was the equal of killing 4 Kent State Students, blowing up a black church in Birmingham, September 15, 1963 and taking Oswald out on live TV and shown by photographer Robert J. Jackson. Then the twist is that Ms. Franklin goes back to the guy that got her pregnant & the hero goes home in tears as the credit closes, Saw that in September, 1982 at a local theatre on SR 161. I found the movie with good and bad scenes, but from 1968 thru 1974, I did not have a surplus population of sons or daughters who were sired after me & yet one like me was going to be fixed until the likes of Lt. Calley & Charles Manson & Chuck Starkweather was supposed to defend my honor like The Japanese did to American POWS by beheading them with samurai swords. And yet when I graduated from my local high school on June 8, 1974 being a boy virgin was a big "dishonor" should have been blown away by a black girl with a 1952 Packard Limousine hearse. However when I saw "The Last American Virgin" I saw myself like the hero in the story. And I think he should get a medal of honor what he did for Diane Franklin's character in the movie. And the guy who got Franklin's girl pregnant should pay the price and the comment would the same as The Coachman from Disney's Pinocchio would say! " YOU BOYS HAD ALL YER FUN! NOW PAY FOR IT!" However I'm not ashamed to been a 23 year old virgin. That's how old The South Korean dude was when he did Easter Monday massacre on April 16, 2007 at Virginia Tech. He did take 32 people out before he left an honorable demise like the Japanese did when they crashed a plane on an US Aircraft Carrier toward the end of WWII in Japan. I do have the movie and the soundtrack on vinyl & liked the story. But in some stories the tearful kid will get a medal of honor like the 4 girls did when Obama was in the White House for the second term. There wasn't any girls silmar to "Edsel" in my life & she would fill Ponytail's void she would be the one who removed my status as a "boy virgin" and wouldn't end up killed like Matt Sheppard in the end.

For an American teen sex comedy of the 1980s, THE LAST American VIRGIN is surprisingly strong viewing. It features a cast of characters who are both likable and more importantly realistic; a fast-moving plot with plenty of laughs and incident to keep it moving; and a surprisingly deep and dramatic final half hour which transcends the usual boundaries of the sex comedy genre to become something more, perhaps a work of social drama.This is invigorating stuff, with lively direction from Boaz Davidson, here basically remaking his own Israeli film LEMON POPSICLE. Most of the cast were unknown to me but do well in their various parts: Lawrence Monoson as the lovesick lead (we've all been there), Steve Antin as the jock, AMITYVILLE II: THE POSSESSION's Diane Franklin as the object of Monoson's obsession. There's plenty of nudity here and the usual encounters we expect from high school comedies, such as spying on the girl's changing room, a visit to a hooker, and plenty more.One stand-out supporting role comes from Louisa Moritz playing what would today be described as a 'cougar' who the boys end up visiting. What follows is pretty much unforgettable and must have been for all the teenage boys who saw this film back in the day. The love triangle aspect of the film isn't funny at all, but rather awkward and, yes, tragic. It's as though the comedy slips away as the running time progresses, leaving something deep and meaningful behind it. The ending has the same impact as being dunked in an ice-cold river, rounding off what is certainly an above-average movie.

I remember being 13 and going to the drive in to see this movie with my friend and his 16 year old brother who had just got his license as well as two other friends. We piled into his moms Ford LTD and headed out. It was august of 1982 and we had actually went to see Tootsie as the feature and Virgin as the encore. We were not going to stay for Virgin after Tootsie but I am glad we did! By far the best the teenage coming of age flick you have never heard of. Funny, raunchy, and full of inappropriate humor and nudity! But unlike other teen comedies of that era such as Porky's etc. It had more to it. A little something special. Maybe it was the characters, the story, or perhaps the more serious tone the film takes the last 30 min. I remember leaving the drive in thinking the ending was messed up comedies are not suppose to end like that! Then I seen the movie about 7 years later, on VHS. I was 20 then with my own apartment, and having been through a couple relationships and fresh out of my teens the movie was even better! The Last American Virgin just seems to epitomize what it is really like to be a teen. Hanging with your friends, chasing girls, relationships, sex, High school. Oh yeah and broken hearts! There maybe be more well known teenage comedies of 80's, but none quite like this!

Most of the movie is just like all the other high school dating B movies with nudity to keep guys glued to the screen. You have the typical nerd who likes the pretty girl who likes the handsome/cool guy who is a jerk. In this movie though the jerk, and the leading "hero" are actually friends which is something different. Towards the end of the movie though the movie becomes more serious. I have never seen a movie where the tone switched so dramatically. I gave the movie a six at first(20 minutes before the end), but after seeing the ending I moved it to a 7. I will admit the movie as a whole is not a 7. Not including the ending it is a 5 or 6, but the ending was so great to me that I pushed it to a 7.