Directed by Gerry O'Hara
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
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Tom Bell is an electrician on films and plays. He has a pretty wife and a couple of kids. One day he meets young Olivia Hussey on the set of a play and they go out for drinks together. One things leads to another and they are soon embarked on an affair. She reveals that her age is 15 although she looks and acts older. Tom should have turned around and walked away at that point, but instead takes her home when his wife is away on business. This could turn out only a couple of ways: they get caught or she gets pregnant, and basically the rest of the film revolves around those two possibilities. Interesting mainly for a glimpse at the daily life of middle class British and young actors in the early 70s, otherwise morally ambiguous, especially given the fact that Tom essentially gets off unpunished.
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