The likable Pamela Segall has a great screen presence but an amateurish script in this teen comedy of one young girl's discovery that her sex is changed simply because she had a desire to know what it was like to be a boy. She finds out one day that anatomy has played a dirty trick on her, and she is now a he. While her performance playing a boy makes sense if the character was pre-teen, there is no fooling me that there is no way to be a high school aged student. Yet, he is able to beat up the school bully, attract flirtatious high school girls and not drive parents Party Duke and John Glover to a mental institution.
This film keeps changing its direction, with continuity a major factor in my dislike of the film as a whole. The one touching moment comes when Segall in boy attire comforts a wheelchair bound male student who confesses his homosexuality to him/her. It was a tender moment that I didn't quite suspect but it is badly plotted. A violent sequence is truly disturbing even if it is the bully getting his butt whipped. I finally gave up and moved onto better films. Perhaps the mid 1980s were too soon to tackle this subject. Its a nice try but a misfire just the same.
This film keeps changing its direction, with continuity a major factor in my dislike of the film as a whole. The one touching moment comes when Segall in boy attire comforts a wheelchair bound male student who confesses his homosexuality to him/her. It was a tender moment that I didn't quite suspect but it is badly plotted. A violent sequence is truly disturbing even if it is the bully getting his butt whipped. I finally gave up and moved onto better films. Perhaps the mid 1980s were too soon to tackle this subject. Its a nice try but a misfire just the same.