An Innocent Love 1982 NR Melissa Sue Anderson Movie DVD

An Innocent Love 1982 NR Melissa Sue Anderson Movie DVD

Originally filmed under the title One Starry Night, this CBS TV movie stars Melissa Sue Anderson as 19-year-old University of Washington volleyball champ Molly Rush. In danger of flunking out of school, Molly turns to a tutor for help. Her "mentor" turns out to be 14-year-old math genius Harry Woodward (Doug McKeon), who has been enrolled in the university under a special early entry program. Much to the surprise of both protagonists, Molly and Harry fall in love -- a state of affairs that does not please Molly's otherwise easygoing jock boyfriend, Dunc Widdoes (Steven Bauer, here billed as Rocky Bauer). An Innocent Love initially aired on March 2, 1982.

This is a wonderful film. It moves slowly and surely. There is no last-minute crazed finale. You get what you think you are getting: an innocent, tender love story. I highly recommend it.

A coming of age story of a educationally accelarated young teenager that is accepted into college, falls in love with an older college student, facing first love, and obstacles such as maturity, youth, and a boyfriend. Shot at University of Washington.

This made for TV film about a gifted high school boy who is hired to tutor a college volleyball player in trigonometry, and the crush he develops for her. The differences in their ages, her lack of romantic interest in him, her boyfriend, his parents, and her desire not to break his heart, all conflict in this romantic coming of age film.

With authentic scenes and details based upon an actual program on the idyllic University of Washington campus, this film sensitively and high-mindedly depicts a gifted adolescent whose intellectual peers happen to be chronological elders. 14-year-old Harry, a university junior and aspiring astronomer, has his heart set on an upcoming field trip to view a rare solar eclipse. Because he would miss his sister's wedding, his parents oppose his attending. Needing money to go on his own, he answers a want-ad from Molly, a freshman volleyball star, for a tutor in calculus; and their relationship becomes tenderly romantic. Her boyfriend Duncan, stroke on the rowing team, also befriends Harry and makes him his boat's coxswain. Harry and Duncan commiserate together through the painful ambivalence of helping the girl they love improve her math grades in order to transfer to far-off UCLA, leaving them both.

CAST:

Doug McKeon - Harry Woodward

Melissa Sue Anderson - Molly Rush

Steven Bauer - Dunc Widdoes

Kristoff St. John - Mario

Bill Calvert - Max

John Colenback - Andrew Woodward

Pat Finley - June Woodward

Stephanie Shine - Hilary Woodward

Dick Eriksson - Crew Coach

Susan Fenberg - Stewardess

Robert Loper - Doctor Amberman

Sheryl Drummond - Clerk

Paul Hosteller - Professor Budnick

Steve Suttich - Volleyball Coach

Excellent Quality Movie DVD.

DVD picture quality is a nine out of ten.