Taglines: There’s only one thing left to lose.
The Last American Virgin is a comedy-drama remake of a 1978 Israeli movie titled ‘Eskimo Limon’ (‘Lemon Popsicle), and it revolves around three American high school students, the protagonist Gary (Lawrence Monoson), a typical highschooler and all around nice guy who works delivering pizzas as his after-school job. Gary’s two best friends are Rick (Steve Antin), a slick ladies man, and David (Joe Rubbo), the fat-boy comic relief.
Most of the plot involves their numerous failed attempts to have sex and lose their virginity. During one particular night, the three guys pick up three girls at their local diner hangout with the promise of cocaine (instead they use Sweet’n Low) and take them to Gary’s house. Gary gets stuck with the homely and overweight Millie, a friend of the other two more attractive girls. But their party gets interupted when Gary’s parents return and chaos breaks out. David, gets left behind and accidently walks into Gary’s mother whom he mistakes for one of the girls and gets thrown out weaing only his underwear.
One day, Gary happens to be delivering pizza to Carmela (Louisa Moritz), a sexy Mexican woman whose sailor boyfriend is never home, and she hints to him she wants more than just pizza. Being too afraid to follow on it, Gary leaves and convinces his friends to go along with him. They drop by her home the next evening using the pretext they were nearby on a pizza delivery and decided to bring her over some extra pizzas. She lets them in, puts on music and performs a sexy dance routine, to the delight of the boys. She promptly has sex with Rick and David, but her boyfriend Paco returns home just as Gary is about to have his turn, prompting them to flee.
Later, a love triangle develops between Gary, Rick and Karen (Diane Franklin), a new student to their school whom becomes smitten with the bad boy Rick, but has some feelings for the nice guy Gary who follows her around from time to time.
Eventually, Rick and Karen have sex one night under the bleachers at the playing field and as a result, Karen gets pregnant and Rick leaves her. Gary decides to help Karen pay for her abortion by selling most of his possessions and borrowing money from his boss. After the abortion, Gary and Karen spend the remainder of the weekend alone together in Gary’s grandmother’s summer house so she can recover. They seem to hit it off and Karen invites Gary to her 18th birthday party at her house the following week. Gary scrapes up a few more dollars and buys Karen a gold locket for her birthday.
However, when Gary arrives at the party, his dreams of a lasting romance with Karen are shattered when he sees Karen making out with Rick in the kitchen. Despite of what the scuzbucket Rick had put Karen through, she apparently decided to take him back to start all over. Gary finally realizes that nice guys always do finish last in this world. Taking Karen’s gift with him, a distraught Gary leaves the party and drives home, emtionally broken and defeated.
The Last American Virgin is a 1982 American sex comedy film written and directed by Boaz Davidson. It is a remake of Davidson’s 1978 Israeli film Eskimo Limon (Lemon Popsicle).
After the success of the original film and its sequels in Israel, Davidson re-teamed with producers Golan-Globus to attempt to recreate the same success in the United States. Though the film’s plot and characters remained largely the same, the setting was updated from 1950s Israel to then-present day suburban Los Angeles. The soundtrack, a major facet of both films, was also updated from the original’s golden oldies to more contemporary new wave rock.
The Last American Virgin (1982)
Directed by: Boaz Davidson
Starring: Lawrence Monoson, Diane Franklin, Steve Antin, Joe Rubbo, Louisa Moritz, Brian Peck, Kimmy Robertson, Tessa Richarde, Gerri Idol, Winifred Freedman, Phil Rubenstein, Roberto Rodriquez
Screenplay by: Boaz Davidson
Production Design by: Pat Morrill
Cinematography by: Adam Greenberg
Film Editing by: Bruria Davidson
Art Direction by: Jim Dultz
Makeup Department; Richard Arrington
Music by: Deborah Harry, Mark Allen
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Cannon Film Distributors
Release Date: July 30, 1982 (United States)
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