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‘Summer of 69’ Review: Jillian Bell’s Far-Fetched Feature Debut Pairs a Stripper With a High School Student
Sam Morelos plays a Catholic school girl who seeks advice from a stripper played by 'SNL' pro Chloe Fineman in American High's irreverent teen comedy.
Conveniently enough (in a contrivance-reliant screenplay that feels reverse-engineered from its joke title), Abby is such a successful live-streamer of video games on the Glitch network that with almost no hesitation, she agrees to pay Santa Monica $20K for a week’s worth of private make-me-sexy lessons. “Summer of 69” was co-written by Bell, Liz Nico and Jules Byrne, and the novelty here is that it’s sexually inexperienced character doesn’t turn to a male hustler, like Joe Buck of “Midnight Cowboy,” but a fellow woman for guidance. There’s not much connection to reality, but then, that’s par for the course in this genre, which has famously featured a perv sticking his body parts through a peephole into the girls’ locker room (“Porky’s”) and an inexperienced lad losing his virginity to a piping hot pastry (“American Pie”).
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