I became acquainted with Jenny Agutter a few years ago when I saw her in "Walkabout", playing an Australian child that ran away into the brush with her younger brother after their depressed father tried to kill them. This movie actually predates that one by a couple of years, and is set in England.
Jenny Agutter is Wynne, a 15-yr-old school girl in a blended family. Her dad had died some years earlier and he mum remarried a man with a 32-yr-old son. The son is Bryan Marshall as George. The actors playing these two main characters were very near the correct ages.
Wynne as pubescent girls often do becomes infatuated with this "older" man, who still lives with them at home. She has the idea that when she gets old enough to marry they can be a couple. She muses that when she is 20 he will almost be 40. She even has daydreams about him kissing her, or walking in while she is in the bathtub.
But George is not at all interested in this young virgin girl, he really does seem to treat her as his own little sister. Then something happens, a young girl is found dead in the pond near their old home, Wynne notices a few suspicious things about George, some scratches on his back and some blood on a sweater, and she begins to suspect that he is the killer. But she has no desire to turn him in, she wants to take care of him, "protect" him from those who might want to harm him.
So most of the story has Wynne going around being a Nancy Drew of sorts, but out of infatuation for George, not so much to solve a crime.
Young Agutter is very good, and in spite of its 40+ years of age plays very well still. I enjoyed it, as a character study of Wynne and he coming of age..
SPOILERS: Eventually all the clues about George are explained, and he is pretty much what he seems to be, but also spends lots of time in secret with a suicidal woman to help get her better. George is not at all interested in Wynne or her friends as anything romantic. The bad guy turns out to be the young conductor on the bus they take home from school, he seems to have an obsession with "bad" girls, and Wynne's friend was a flirty girl that always wore very short skirts.
Jenny Agutter is Wynne, a 15-yr-old school girl in a blended family. Her dad had died some years earlier and he mum remarried a man with a 32-yr-old son. The son is Bryan Marshall as George. The actors playing these two main characters were very near the correct ages.
Wynne as pubescent girls often do becomes infatuated with this "older" man, who still lives with them at home. She has the idea that when she gets old enough to marry they can be a couple. She muses that when she is 20 he will almost be 40. She even has daydreams about him kissing her, or walking in while she is in the bathtub.
But George is not at all interested in this young virgin girl, he really does seem to treat her as his own little sister. Then something happens, a young girl is found dead in the pond near their old home, Wynne notices a few suspicious things about George, some scratches on his back and some blood on a sweater, and she begins to suspect that he is the killer. But she has no desire to turn him in, she wants to take care of him, "protect" him from those who might want to harm him.
So most of the story has Wynne going around being a Nancy Drew of sorts, but out of infatuation for George, not so much to solve a crime.
Young Agutter is very good, and in spite of its 40+ years of age plays very well still. I enjoyed it, as a character study of Wynne and he coming of age..
SPOILERS: Eventually all the clues about George are explained, and he is pretty much what he seems to be, but also spends lots of time in secret with a suicidal woman to help get her better. George is not at all interested in Wynne or her friends as anything romantic. The bad guy turns out to be the young conductor on the bus they take home from school, he seems to have an obsession with "bad" girls, and Wynne's friend was a flirty girl that always wore very short skirts.