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Sweet Substitute, retitled Caressed in the United States, is a Canadian drama film, directed by Larry Kent and released in 1964. The film centres on Tom (Bob Howay), a high school student whose efforts to secure an academic scholarship to university are complicated by his sexual compulsions.
Tom is a working-class student in his last year at high school, and hopes to win a scholarship to the university. He and his friend Bill are obsessed with watching women, and blame their lack of success in seducing them on not having a car.
- (37)
- Drama
- Larry Kent
- 1965-11-10
A stylistically brash and sexually frank drama, Sweet Substitute is a seminal independent feature of the early sixties. The second feature from Vancouver director Larry Kent, it was financed by the receipts from his controversial first film, The Bitter Ash (1963).
Sweet Substitute, retitled Caressed in the United States, is a Canadian drama film, directed by Larry Kent and released in 1964.
Like The Bitter Ash, Sweet Substitute turned heads and raised eyebrows for being “ stylistically brash and sexually frank” (Take One). Tom (Robert Howay), a libidinous high-school senior about to enter university, is torn between two women: attractive but conventional Elaine (Angela Gann), who won’t have sex outside marriage, and less ...
Lanny Beckman Cast. Critics reviews. Tom is a working-class student in his last year at high school, and hopes to win a scholarship to the university. He and his friend Bill are obsessed with watching women, and blame their lack of success in seducing them on not having a car.
A frustrated (Robert Howay) teenager who is obsessed with sex impregnates his tutor (Carol...
