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

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)

Trailer

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