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Steve Antin - "The Last American Virgin"

This is the American re-make of "Lemon Popsicle." Only in the 80's could you have a group of guys lining up in the high school locker room and having their erections measured with not one gay joke or slur. Plus everyone in briefs (except the overweight kid, when shown later he is in boxers. Nowadays it would be reversed and the overweight guy would be in briefs and the "cool kids" in boxers). This movie played out as a typical teen sex flick, and not a particularly good one, until the final few minutes. The movie has one of, if the most, realistic and brutal endings to any teenage film ever (ok, obviously I am not talking "bully" like teenage movies). It is so tonally different from the rest of the film it is incredibly jarring. But back to what you are here for: