I give this movie such a high score only for the nostalgic feelings it evokes for me. I saw it with my "first". I felt a kinship with Billy Katt as he stumbled through the the physical aspects of making and being in love the first time. It was a total hoot to hear him ask. "Did I make you come?" after the first time. Who the @#$! asks that?? The movie is beautifully photographed. Susan Dey was a gorgeous, if slightly untalented actress. William Katt did a decent job. I forgot that John Heard was in the movie. He is brilliant as always. So, this is not so much a review as a chance for me to remember my "first", who, by the way, I did not marry! I would recommend this movie for those of us who were in college in 1977.

College guy William Katt falls in love with the "older woman" Susan Dey, who is actually 2 years younger. Katt was 25 and Dey was 23 when this was filmed in 1976. Some nice views of Reed College in 1976.It's supposed to be his first romance, but for a guy who's saving himself for real love, he has an odd knack for cringe-worthy pillow-talk about whether or not he makes her "come." It's totally inappropriate in such a new relationship. Someone had been reading too much Cosmopolitan! Dey makes a weird pillow-talk speech about a Bactrian camel sticking its tongue out in the snow.They have an extended love scene which is by far the high point of the film - Dey gets naked. Dey takes Katt to her house in the country, where they make love again. Then she gets a 5-second call from her older married lover, and out of the blue tells Katt she can't see him any more.After the booty call with the married man, she wants to get back together but Katt says it's over, and you can't blame him - she's pretty, but unfaithful and slightly nuts. He puts her on a train, to where is not known or explained - she's supposed to live in the area after all. Katt goes to a zoo and visits a Bactian camel in the snow.

I guess I bought this because of William Katt, and because I liked him in other things. The plot sounded great too. Now, put William Katt (who I found beautiful in Carrie) along with the plot of him finding 'love' for the first time, it's a winner! Or not. I didn't not like the movie, I actually did like it! But some things I didn't. The music score was great! The 'theme' song by Cat Stevens, and the song by Paul Williams was great! Sometimes I found Katt annoying though, and sometimes you just don't believe his acting. (i.e. the scene on the bridge when him and Susan are fixing to break up again) Other times he's good. This is just a movie about him growing as a person, and learning. John Heard has a little role in the movie, he doesn't show off his acting skills in this though. Overall, it's a nice movie. 6.5/10.

William Katt is very cute as a sweet and naive college student learning about love and sex for the first time. The director does a good job conveying this simplicity as the overall motif for the film. A very appropriate Cat Stevens soundtrack also contributes to the proceedings. Susan Dey is quite good as Katt's older-woman love interest. Then, just when the film has us in its grip, it lets us go in an ending of meaningless platitudes. I still liked it overall, but felt a bit let down with the unimaginitve ending.