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dialogue refreshingly natural. (Joy's first post-coital murmur is 'As much as I love you, if you don't move soon you're gonna crush me ribs'). Some idyllic chases around parks and beaches are the only regrettable lapses; and although it seems indulgent of O'Hara to develop the sequence of Joy's premature arrival home into a suspense sketch (constant intercutting between Joy's rapid progress from the airport, and Val taking an age to leave the flat), like nearly everything else in the film, it does work."
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for a theatrical company. Despite his commitment to his family, he sleeps with Val, an actress in the show, who then reveals she is fifteen. Despite this he continues the affair. The young woman believes she might be pregnant but is not. The affair ends amicably and the man's wife never finds out.
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era, given that it follows the developing relationship between 30 something theatre electrician Tom Bell and chorus giri Olivia Hussey. Trouble is, he has forgotten to mention he has a wife and kids, and she's omitted that she's 15 and still at school. Capturing the free love spirit of the time,
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