{"id":3800,"date":"2007-07-28T19:21:03","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T02:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3800"},"modified":"2021-01-17T11:59:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T18:59:17","slug":"first-time-the-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3800","title":{"rendered":"First Time, The (1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;While others get laid, Charles, you will make love!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/First-Time-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/First-Time-Poster-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/First-Time-Poster-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/First-Time-Poster-84x128.jpg 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/First-Time-Poster.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAn aspiring virginal filmmaker (Tim Choate) lusts after a beautiful young co-ed (Krista Errickson) who wants nothing to do with him.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>College<\/li>\n<li>Romantic Comedy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nCharlie Loventhal&#8217;s semi-autobiographical debut film received promising reviews from the <em>New York Times<\/em> upon its release &#8212; but it&#8217;s truly difficult to understand why. This archetypal tale of a young virgin hoping to gain some experience has been told countless times, and there&#8217;s nothing particularly new or original here; in fact, within the first fifteen minutes, we can already tell which pretty-but-not-popular girl the protagonist will end up with, and which pretty-but-selfish girl he&#8217;ll woo without luck &#8212; only to eventually realize she wasn&#8217;t worth the effort to begin with (who knew?). Charlie&#8217;s romantic travails (yes, he even has the same name as the director) are counterbalanced by a running subplot concerning his obnoxious film professor (played by Wallace Shawn, annoyingly typecast), and his classmates&#8217; slavish slathering over the pretentious &#8220;art&#8221; films Shawn has produced. Naturally, our lovable protagonist is the <em>sole <\/em>budding filmmaker in the bunch who believes that films are meant to be &#8212; gasp! &#8212; entertaining; it&#8217;s too bad that the drivel he churns out really isn&#8217;t.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wendie Jo Sperber as a sexually aggressive co-ed determined to bed Charlie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo. While this film is inexplicably listed in the back of Peary&#8217;s book as a Personal Recommendation and a Sleeper, it&#8217;s definitely not worth seeking out. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0085546\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1983\/07\/13\/movies\/the-first-time-campus-fun.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;While others get laid, Charles, you will make love!&#8221; Synopsis: An aspiring virginal filmmaker (Tim Choate) lusts after a beautiful young co-ed (Krista Errickson) who wants nothing to do with him. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: College Romantic Comedy Review: Charlie Loventhal&#8217;s semi-autobiographical debut film received promising reviews from the New York Times upon its release &#8212; but it&#8217;s truly difficult to understand why. This archetypal tale of a young virgin hoping to gain some experience has been told countless&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3800\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63890,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions\/63890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}