What's it about?
Raunchy comedy/drama about a group of L.A. teens trying to
pop their cherry, but embarrassing misfortunes and harsh realities get in their
way.
Who would I recognise in it?
Lawrence Monoson, Diane Franklin, Steve Antin, Kimmy
Robertson.
Great/Good/Alright/Shite?
The summer of 1982 saw a glut of saucy teen comedies – chief
among them being Bob Clark's Porky's and Amy Heckerling's Fast Times
At Ridgemont High – but another, The Last American Virgin, stood out
by daring to go different. Produced by the infamous Canon Film Group as their
first entry into American filmmaking (check out the documentary Electric
Boogaloo), TLAV was a remake of Davidson's hugely successful
Israeli film Lemon Popsicle (like a proto American Pie
franchise of the 70s and 80s), but it found itself somewhat swept aside in
movie theatres by its populist competition. But while Porky's and Fast
Times At Ridgemont High had memorable encounters (the shower scene,
Phoebe Cates in the red bikini) mixed with sprinklings of seriousness (anti-Semitism,
abortion), TLAV's similar mix of light and dark found a larger
audience on home video and cable TV in the years that followed...
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