07 - Secret Admirer

    1985 romantic comedy that somehow got onto my teen sex romp Netflix suggestions.  This is a surprisingly tame movie - there's a tiny bit of nudity, but there's something very disconcerting about the movie in a general sense.  It's actually written pretty well, and the plotting seems carefully thought out, so I never get a sense of "well that's unlikely."

    On the last day of school, the male lead gets an anonymous love letter in his locker.  He's convinced that it's written by the girl he wants.  As he pursues that girl, he interacts with the girl who actually wrote the letter, his friend.  The letter winds up being passed around, moving from his family to another family, and everyone who finds the letter assumes that it's for them, from someone else.  This would all feel charming if it were limited to high school relationships, but it starts messing around with two marriages, and somehow that feels uncomfortable.  They write their way out of the problem at the end, but in the meantime, it felt like the wrong kind of tension.

    Other than that, there were some good performances, although no one really stands out.  Somehow, Corey Haim was in it, and I didn't notice.