Plot

A gifted 14-year-old junior at the University of Washington replies to an ad of a 19-year-old freshman to be her maths tutor, paving the way for a friendship and a silent first crush. Will the kind genius master the lessons of the heart?

A coming of age story of a educationally accelarated young teenager that is accepted into college, falls in love with an older college student, facing first love, and obstacles such as maturity, youth, and a boyfriend. Shot at University of Washington.—Lance Rasmussen <LanceEMCN@aol.com>

Despite his young age, Harry, the gifted fourteen-year-old junior at the University of Washington, is already on his way to becoming an astrophysicist. On the other hand, the charming nineteen-year-old freshman, Molly--even though she is a skilful all-American volleyball player--she has trouble with calculus. As luck would have it, a handwritten advertisement for a maths tutor will bring Harry and Molly together, paving the way for a true friendship, and above all, a silent first crush. Will the well-intentioned genius master the lessons of the heart?—Nick Riganas

A made for TV film about a gifted high school boy who is hired to tutor a college volleyball player in trigonometry, and the crush he develops for her. The differences in their ages, her lack of romantic interest in him, her boyfriend, his parents, and her desire not to break his heart, all conflict in this romantic coming of age film.—<roosty@slip.net>

With authentic scenes and details based upon an actual program on the idyllic University of Washington campus, this film sensitively and high-mindedly depicts a gifted adolescent whose intellectual peers happen to be chronological elders. 14-year-old Harry, a university junior and aspiring astronomer, has his heart set on an upcoming field trip to view a rare solar eclipse. Because he would miss his sister's wedding, his parents oppose his attending. Needing money to go on his own, he answers a want-ad from Molly, a freshman volleyball star, for a tutor in calculus; and their relationship becomes tenderly romantic. Her boyfriend Duncan, stroke on the rowing team, also befriends Harry and makes him his boat's coxswain. Harry and Duncan commiserate together through the painful ambivalence of helping the girl they love improve her math grades in order to transfer to far-off UCLA, leaving them both.—Paul Emmons <pemmons@wcupa.edu>