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The Young Lovers

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1hr 45min
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1964
Synopsis: Producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. took a stab at directing with this '60s-era melodrama about college students dealing with the realities of love, sex, and war. Peter Fonda and Sharon Hugueny star as Eddie and Pam, the titular young lovers. An art student and teacher's assistant, the two meet in college and proceed to fall into a passionate affair. Emotional tumult later follows though, when Pam announces she is pregnant with Eddie's child. Also starring Nick Adams' and Deborah Walley, The Young Lovers ... Full Synopsis
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Somewhat daring in its time, The Young Lovers will come across as very dated to many modern viewers. Lovers deserves points for tackling, with serious and sensitivity, issues that were only beginning to be explored openly in the cinema of 1964 -- premarital sex, abortion, paternal responsibility, etc. Yet even when it was first released, Lovers didn't explore these with enough honesty; there's a hesitancy ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Eddie Slocum
Pam Burns
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