![]() ![]() The last twenty minutes are particularly daft though - and did rather ruin the thing. It's trying to do grown up, and it makes a half-decent fist of it. I found there to a bit of chemistry between the two, "Travis" is actually quite charismatic and the humour is marginally more sophisticated than we would find in, say, the interminable "After." series of teen melodramas. It's about pretty people having a bit of a laugh and hoping some of that rubs off on us. There now follows a rather contrived - and frankly ridiculous - bet that sees her end up sharing his bed for a month, Will they, won't they? That doesn't matter - this film isn't about jeopardy. Guess what? Yep, one of her new roomies is none other than the mischievous pugilist. Shortly afterwards, their dorm water supply runs dry and she has to move in with her friend. Replete with some of his latest victim's blood on her top, she feigns a loathing for the man but. ![]() First night there, she and her pal "America" (Libe Barer) head off to a student equivalent of "Fight Club" where she meets the bare knuckle champion "Travis" (Dylan Sprouse). "Abby" (Virginia Gardner) is fed up picking up the pieces for her gambler father so heads to college in California. I fully expected to hate this - but, well, I didn't. ![]()
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