Also Known As:
The Senior
Tagline:
"Why look back to remember how it was when you can keep it the way it is?"
Plot:
Dennis Quaid and his college chums aren't looking forward to graduating and getting jobs. When they find out that a virginal acquaintance has access to the grant applications of feeble research scientist (and Fred Flintstone voice actor) Alan Reed, they let the virgin make time with soon-to-be Three's Company substitute Priscilla Barnes ("a nympho who likes to cook and clean house") in exchange for a grant to study the effects of sexual liberation on college girls. Women beat down their door for a $20 stipend, a chance to help the cause of science, and the opportunity to indulge the fantasies of Quaid and company: bondage, excessive showering, being pawed by a guy in a gorilla suit, the works. Eventually, Quaid's group starts charging men to participate, and while they launder the profits through local banks and churches, a montage of their rise to success shows nuns ferrying sexy co-eds by school bus to nearby motels, while the ersatz soft-rock song "Love Is" plays. (Just what was missing from Kinsey.)
Key scenes:
A dowdy woman from the grant board thinks doddering old scientist Reed is talking about sex when he says he can go "five or six hours a day... if I take a nap, seven or eight... the back gives a little pain, but keep pushing, that's the big secret."
Can easily be distinguished by:
The screenplay by sex-comedy veteran Stanley Shapiro, who wrote Pillow Talk. Shapiro is surely responsible for lines like "I'm majoring in business. I'll be getting paid $20 for something I've been giving away for free. Isn't that good business?" But it was the probably the director's idea to have the actress say it while jogging braless.
Sign that it was made in 1978: The animated opening credits list the stars who aren't in the movie, including Steve McQueen, Burt Reynolds, Ryan O'Neal, and "Robert DiNiro." Later, a man makes an E.F. Hutton joke.
Timeless message:
Women will happily have sex with strangers if it's for a good cause.
Memorable quotes:
One of Quaid's cronies—future soap-opera star Jeffrey Byron—tries to rally the troops by insisting, "America will buy bullshit. You just put it in an aerosol can and have John Wayne endorse it."
Available on DVD from St. Clair Vision.
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