Even as a seventeen year old "boy", I really enjoyed parts of this movie ;-)
For me it's a kind of reference for that often told story of the summer of first love: all of the well-known cliché-characters - the four girls and their special patterns of behavior in relation to each other, the guys, the strange old man... - are portrayed and played in a nicely detailed way. The story development works pretty fine, too, and all in all builds up an at least "comprehensible" atmosphere, being far away from letting you forget you're watching a film or even being realistic, but as that's not what I'd expect from such a film, that doesn't really bother me.
BUT... the parts of the story playing in the present REALLY annoy me. In addition to the unmotivated kind-of-story with it's incredibly boring and unmoving ending, all actresses deliver such a bad work, that Demi Moore actually makes the best impression to me - and she's not better at all than in her other movies.
In order to rate this film in an honest way an AS IT IS, I can give it only 6 out of 10 - I highly recommend it, nevertheless.
For me it's a kind of reference for that often told story of the summer of first love: all of the well-known cliché-characters - the four girls and their special patterns of behavior in relation to each other, the guys, the strange old man... - are portrayed and played in a nicely detailed way. The story development works pretty fine, too, and all in all builds up an at least "comprehensible" atmosphere, being far away from letting you forget you're watching a film or even being realistic, but as that's not what I'd expect from such a film, that doesn't really bother me.
BUT... the parts of the story playing in the present REALLY annoy me. In addition to the unmotivated kind-of-story with it's incredibly boring and unmoving ending, all actresses deliver such a bad work, that Demi Moore actually makes the best impression to me - and she's not better at all than in her other movies.
In order to rate this film in an honest way an AS IT IS, I can give it only 6 out of 10 - I highly recommend it, nevertheless.