Film is typical for it's time period. It contains some decent character interactions which could have used a lot more work. Someone really dumped hard on this film and it's budget and it shows. Look past the awkwardness of everyone involved in this project and you might be able to ad lib into the story and it'll seem less awkward. It seems that the story had a lot of directions it wanted to go in and a lot of things it wanted to try to put into the film to create the time period and circumstances. I simply don't think it flows smoothly. Not sure if it was a screen play written from scratch, where the points got thrown in or if it was written from a longer story and we see someone trying to pull the highlights out of the bigger story. I think I am looking at this more critically now after watching it again off a disk set purchased then when I was young and it first came out. If memory serves me correctly, I enjoyed it a lot more before I knew a lot more. Now I see lots of little problems in the film that most likely could not be corrected during the editing. Maybe should have rated this a point or two higher; but, all things considered from decades of experience, just can't go that high. As another person says, I like the young love story and how it turns out.