Jimmy Reardon is a high school Casanova, aspiring poet, whose
parents are middle-class but who hangs around with the local
upper-class youth. Because he was fooled by a girl, Jimmy has
lost part of the money he needed to enter University. His
father wants him to go to the same university as he was gone,
and refuses to pay for another one.
Jimmy is all the more
frustrated because he can't follow his rich high school pals,
who he envies and his girlfriend Lisa Bentwright. Lisa is the only girl
around who has refused to sleep with him so far. Maybe that's
another reason why he tries to find money to follow her to
Hawaii, planning to settle and work there instead of going to
university.
After several attempts to get the money for the
plane ticket, he's given the last 20 dollars he needed by his
mother to drive back home a friend of her, Joyce Fickett, a
sensual single woman. Eventually he's seduced by her, and he's
so busy with her that he forgets he was supposed to pick up Lisa
for a party for their last night together. It's only when his
mother, worried, calls Joyce to ask where he is, that he runs
away to find Lisa, who has gone to the party with Jimmy's rival,
Matthew Hollander.
He appears half drunk at the party and makes a scandal out
of jealousy, and Lisa prefers to go away with Matthew. Jimmy's so
angered that all his plans were ruined so close to the aim, that
he crashes his father's car. When he calls Joyce for help, he
finds out that she's also his father's mistress, and he then
calls his father, using the fact to avoid an argument. On the
way home, father and son finally reconciliate.
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