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This low budget film, made by director Robert Clouse a few years before he directed Bruce Lee in ENTER THE DRAGON, is a love story between two high school youths -- Tom (John Demos), the son of a poor fisherman, and Ann (Caroline Barrett), the only child of a wealthy Japanese family. Tom shows his affection by behaving in a totally erratic manner, spending his time scaling telephone poles or taking dips into fountains. Ann responds to his antics with with a bewildered lack of enthusiasm. Writer-director Clouse seems to be more interested in lush, pretty photography than in the plot and characters. After the first scenes the film settles into a monotonous montage of the young lovers, and it becomes increasingly difficult to wait for the inevitable romantic ending.