Welcome to yet another movie that got me in trouble when Becca came down and saw a scene out of context, 1978's Israeli coming of age movie Lemon Popsicle/Eskimo Limon.
This takes place in the Israel in the 1950s, a time when most of this film's budget is spent on the music. The poster claims it has 24 different artists, including Bill Haley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent and Chuck Berry. Producer Menahem Golan - one of the saints of scummy cinema who ran Cannon - claimed that the music rights cost more than making the rest of the movie.
Nili or Niki in the American edit is the new girl at school who meets three boys whose whole lives revolve around sex. They are Benzi/Benji, Momo/Bobby iand Yudale/Huey. Of course, nice guy Benzi falls for her, but she's into the bad boy Momo, who tells his friends that he plans on taking her virginity and will soon get rid of her. Benzi is such a nice guy - we'd call him an incel today - that he doesn't warn her or tell his friend to maybe not treat her so poorly. And before we know it, she's pregnant. He becomes her emotional friend and even takes her to get her abotion, which should lead to them as a couple yet just means that she gets back with Momo.
If you're reading this and saying, "Sam, are you describing The Last American Virgin?" Congratulations. Writer and director Boaz Davidson remade this movie four years later in the United States, destroying minds and reaping souls.
Unlike that movie, there's no scene where all the boys line up to measure one another's members or all sleep with the same older woman one after the other. For all the very foreign feeling in The Last American Virgin that don't really translate, those moments would really stick out.
Since the release of Lemon Popsicle, there have been seven official sequels: Going Steady, Hot Bubblegum, Private Popsicle, Baby Love, Up Your Anchor, Young Love and Summertime Blues. There was also a spin-off, 1983's Private Maneuvers, and the 2001 reboot, The Party Goes On. That's because this series was huge in Germany and Japan.
This takes place in the Israel in the 1950s, a time when most of this film's budget is spent on the music. The poster claims it has 24 different artists, including Bill Haley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent and Chuck Berry. Producer Menahem Golan - one of the saints of scummy cinema who ran Cannon - claimed that the music rights cost more than making the rest of the movie.
Nili or Niki in the American edit is the new girl at school who meets three boys whose whole lives revolve around sex. They are Benzi/Benji, Momo/Bobby iand Yudale/Huey. Of course, nice guy Benzi falls for her, but she's into the bad boy Momo, who tells his friends that he plans on taking her virginity and will soon get rid of her. Benzi is such a nice guy - we'd call him an incel today - that he doesn't warn her or tell his friend to maybe not treat her so poorly. And before we know it, she's pregnant. He becomes her emotional friend and even takes her to get her abotion, which should lead to them as a couple yet just means that she gets back with Momo.
If you're reading this and saying, "Sam, are you describing The Last American Virgin?" Congratulations. Writer and director Boaz Davidson remade this movie four years later in the United States, destroying minds and reaping souls.
Unlike that movie, there's no scene where all the boys line up to measure one another's members or all sleep with the same older woman one after the other. For all the very foreign feeling in The Last American Virgin that don't really translate, those moments would really stick out.
Since the release of Lemon Popsicle, there have been seven official sequels: Going Steady, Hot Bubblegum, Private Popsicle, Baby Love, Up Your Anchor, Young Love and Summertime Blues. There was also a spin-off, 1983's Private Maneuvers, and the 2001 reboot, The Party Goes On. That's because this series was huge in Germany and Japan.