The Last American Virgin (1982)

Director: Boaz Davidson
Writer: Boaz Davidson
Cast: Lawrence Monoson, Diane Franklin, Steven Antin, Joe Rubbo
Genre: Teen, Comedy, Romance, Drama

I don't know much about writer and director of The Last American Virgin, Boaz Davidson, but he's been involved in a lot of movies. The only successful ones of those he's been limited to executive producer at best. Those directing or writing haven't made much fuzz. I also know he was in his early 40's when this movie was made, so that's more disturbing to me than anything else.

Why? Because this is a wannabe comedy, coming of as a directors attempt to get as much female nudity on screen as possible while being adolescent about it. I'm at least as much in favor of female nudity as the next guy, but at least don't pretend you're doing something you're not. Sex-comedy is, or at least was back then, a genre on his own, somewhere between porn and teen-comedy. This is neither as far as I'm concerned.

There's several scenes in this where it seems the director have been sleeping. Not surprising most of them are with dressed females. Sleeping how? Because actors/actresses, otherwise able to get their lines out like they meant it, suddenly appears like they are reading directly from the script, and the scenes are still not re-shot.

The reasons it doesn't get flushed down with a one-rating is the obvious; nudity, along with two factors that really salvages it; a good soundtrack and a couple of really good scenes actually managing to remember the dramatic parts of the story. However few and far apart, they show there's something home in the brain of Mr. Boaz Davidson. I'm pretty sure he could have made a good movie based on those scenes alone, but somewhere along the way I suspect he remembered his lonely geek years as a virgin and the result was projecting his fantasies from back then into the movie.