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Variation of THREE IN THE ATTIC, which also starred Judy Pace. Here Stern plays a dweeb student who loses his scholarship due to a computer glitch. When he can't get college president Hagman to help him, he decides to get revenge by seducing both his wife and daughter.Proudly proclaims to be filmed on location in New Mexico, which is very obvious from the start and nothing to really boast about since it hurts the film as a whole. Shot in wintertime it's dusty, desolate landscape leaves the viewer with a very cold, lonely feeling. This configures poorly with the story that is supposed to be lighthearted and whimsical. The big, modern cement building that's used as the campus looks like it would be better suited for a corporation than a student body. The students themselves, or what little you see of them, look all suspiciously over the age of 24.Director Flicker does a good job of covering the fact that this is a very low budget production. His script is compact and well paced. He frames and cuts his shots well so you don't really notice how lacking in personality or energy it really is. Yet he also shows very little connection to the student uprisings that so predominated the campuses of that era. He seems to view it as some sort of silly amusement. He keeps the whole film at this tone thus making it as silly and forgettable as the characters and situations he tries to satirizeHagman pretty much comes off best. He plays it with a fun mixture of traits from two of his best known characters. He has J.R. Ewings arrogance coupled with Major Nelson's frantic anxiety.The film also has two fun and unique scenes. One has Hagman climbing up a actual radio tower to save Stern who is threatening to jump off. The second one has a pornographic movie shown to a group of unsuspecting and shocked senior citizens
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