Sweet Substitute (1964)
- Directed by
- Larry Kent
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Rating
- 4.2 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A high school student trying to win a scholarship for university gets pulled into a love triangle with two very different girls. One is modest and waiting for marriage, while the other is more sexually open and ends up pregnant.
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What happens
Sweet Substitute, retitled Caressed in the United States, is a Canadian drama film, directed by Larry Kent and released in 1964. The film centres on Tom (Bob Howay), a high school student whose efforts to secure an academic scholarship to university are complicated by his sexual compulsions. He is caught in a love triangle between Elaine (Angela Gann), a prim and proper girl who is saving herself for marriage, and Kathy (Carol Pastinsky), a more sexually available girl whom Tom impregnates. It was a Canadian Film Award nominee for Best Picture at the 17th Canadian Film Awards in 1965, but did not win. It was part of a retrospective screening of Kent's films, alongside The Bitter Ash, When Tomorrow Dies and High, which screened at a number of venues in 2002 and 2003, including Cinematheque Ontario in Toronto, the Pacific Cinémathèque in Vancouver and the Canadian Film Institute in Ottawa. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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