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It's the dream of many a teenager to have sex with an older woman. Fifteen-year-old Oscar Grubman (Aaron Stanford) has a particular target. He has the hots for his stepmother Eve, who is played by Sigourney Weaver. Who wouldn't? She is unaware of what's surging in his mind and his loins when he returns on Thanksgiving vacation from his boarding school to the New York apartment of his dad and stepmom.
As things work out, there's a bit of a detour. Bebe Neuwirth plays Diane, a family friend and she's rather intrigued with young Oscar, who is intelligent, mentally mature and sensitive for his age and spouts quotations from Voltaire. She thinks he's kind of cute, and since Diane is free-wheeling about sex, she sees nothing untoward about making Oscar--and herself--fleetingly happy. There's quite a funny dinner out scene in which Diana shocks her friends.
His romp with Diane doesn't deter Oscar from concentrating on his main goal, which requires working up to making his attempt at seducing the unsuspecting Eve. What will her reaction be? What about dad (John Ritter)? Director Gary Winick, with a screenplay by Niels Mueller and Heather McGowan, keeps the tone light and saucy, tempered with understanding about growing pains, and the result is breezy entertainment nicely handled and well-acted. A Miramax Films release.
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