Tomboy

Producer Daniel Cady and cinematographer/director Henning Schellerup, collaborators on the popular LITTLE GIRLS BLUE series, tackle another coming-of-age story with mediocre results. Woefully miscast somnambulist Melanie Scott is the titular character, a sports nut who begins to explore her budding sexuality with the guys she plays football with. Tom Byron, looking as young and twinkish as I've ever seen him, and Steve Douglas, a switch hitter who was in Toby Ross' THE LAST SURFER and THE PRIVATE PLEASURES OF JOHN C. HOLMES the same year he did this film, are the boys in question. Marc Wallice is Scott's brother, who finds romance with the appropriately named "Mrs. Robinson", an older woman played with expected finesse by Kay Parker.

The whole movie is stolen by the marvelous Laurien Wilde, who graduated from this to a killer role in ALEXANDRA before perishing at a too-young age in a car accident just as her star was taking off. If Cady & Co. Had cast Wilde in the title role instead, this would have made for a much better film, though we also wouldn't have been gifted the opportunity to see Wilde in action in the first two sex scenes as we do here. She vanishes from the film after her van encounter with Klaus Multia, and the movie suffers greatly for it. Karen Summer appears in a very early role (with backdoor queen Rose Marie) in a visually stylish lesbian dream sequence, and she would also have been a more than capable leading lady. She would soon prove herself with the films she made with Kirdy Stevens (TABOO IV, PLAYING WITH FIRE, THE ANIMAL IN ME).

In summary: not worth your time, even for Wilde.