Her attitude is now more grounded in reality she has become more like street-wise Angel. She discovers that physical sex can have ugly consequences. When she lies about "making love" with him, Gary gets in trouble for having sex with a fifteen-year-old. She imagines herself swept off her feet by Gary. Ferris thinks of sex as love and romance and wine and flowers and poetry. Both girls discover that sex is not what they thought it would be. The girls also engage in typical teenage camp behavior, like food fights and singing around a campfire. Angel targets Randy, a boy from the camp across the lake, and Ferris attempts to seduce Gary Callahan, the (much older) camp counselor. The two girls then choose guys they want to lose their virginity with. The rest of the girls divide into two "teams", each rooting for and egging on either Ferris or Angel. The girls involved in the contest are opposites and rivals: cynical, suspicious and streetwise poor girl Angel Bright and naive, prissy and romantic rich girl Ferris Whitney. The film was marketed with the tagline "Don't let the title fool you", a reference to a scene in which Randy comments on Angel's name, to which Angel replies, "Don't let the name fool you."įilm critic Roger Ebert said of the film that it "somehow does succeed in treating the awesome and scary subject of sexual initiation with some of the dignity it deserves." Plot Ī group of teenage girls from Atlanta go to summer camp, and, unbeknownst to the adults, two of them make a bet as to which one will lose her virginity first, with all the girls in camp betting money on the contest. The screenplay was written by Kimi Peck and Dalene Young and the original music score was composed by Charles Fox. Little Darlings is a 1980 American teen comedy-drama film starring Tatum O'Neal and Kristy McNichol and featuring Armand Assante and Matt Dillon.
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