Storyline
When Terry Griffith loses her high school's writing competition, she's convinced that it's because she's a girl. So Terry decides to change high schools and pose as a boy to prove her point. Her brother, Buddy, helps her pass as a guy so well that she is soon making friends with the boys at school, including the attractive Rick, who becomes her new best friend. But her gender-swapping makes things difficult when she falls in love with him.
Directors
Cast
Arye Gross, Clayton Rohner, William Zabka, Katy Boyer, Sherilyn Fenn, Kenneth Tigar, John Apicella, Stuart Charno, Billy Jayne, Joyce Hyser, Toni Hudson, Leigh McCloskey, Deborah Goodrich, Steven Basil, J. Williams, Don Blanton, Ramon Chavez, Frank Sprague, Emily Ragsdale, Richard Blake, Mickey Guinn, Stacy Blythe, Anthony Galde, Linda Kelly, Kim Norwitz, Kim Studer, Joseph Finsterwald, Troy Clegg, Randy Mooers, Brian Melrose, Robert Fieldsteel
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Reviews
70
Familiar but likable, thanks largely to Mr. Jacoby's irrepressible clowning and Miss Hyser's good-sport manner.
67
Entertainingly goofy.
63
Of course, most of the male-female situations Terry finds herself in are played for laughs, and the film eventually sinks into an all too typical conclusion, but the observations regarding the nature of sexuality are interesting and well handled.
63
Chicago Tribune
Joyce Hyser is fine as the male and female Terry, but since "Tootsie" is now the standard in these matters, the makeup job on Hyser as a guy should have been much more convincing. Not for a minute do we forget she's a girl. [30 Apr 1955, p.4C]
50
Key male part of quiet outsider whom Hyser brings to life is essayed by another film newcomer, Clayton Rohner, but Rohner looks too old to be a high school kid.
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