Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the inexperienced Jonathan is emboldened to seek out older women in the cocktail lounges of nearby Chicago, where he meets and beds the alluring Ellen, who unfortunately turns out to be Skip's mother. The division between the friends is further deepened when a cheating scandal engulfs the school.
This movie contains 1 potentially triggering events.
Two best friends and roommates get into a pretty big physical fight. A husband is verbally abusive to his wife. The wife drinks a lot, in front of her son, his friend, her and husband. She clearly has a drinking problem, which may remind people of abusive, drunk parents. That's why I mention it in this section.
A woman acts very reckless, as if she is suicidal, like leaning off the top of a tall building, having sex with random guys, mixing lots of alcohol with pills, etc.
A woman acts very reckless, as if she is suicidal, like leaning off the top of a tall building, having sex with random guys, mixing lots of alcohol with pills, etc.
No, but there is some stupid machismo crap, like bottling up your feeling and then fighting instead of talking about it. That was considered normal for the time.