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First Love tells the story of Elgin Smith, a handsome young college student played by William Katt, and his traumatic first encounter with that profound, earth-shattering emotion referred to as you-know-what...
Tender, sensitive and deep, Elgin is repulsed by his college friends and their flippant attitude towards love and sex. Convinced that debasing bed-hopping is not the only alternative, the handsome soccer player turns down myriad opportunities to jump beneath the covers with sexy partners in order to save himself for something of a purer, more aesthetic...
...blue-eyed, blonde-haired All American practices abstinence and manages to live for his studies and soccer while he waits for the girl of his dreams to trot into his life. One day Elgin criticizes his roommate David's lifestyle and David, played by John Heard who captures the essence of the jovial, macho stereotype, lashes back: "So you want to be Romeo do you? Well, you know, Romeo ended up dead." This little piece of not-so-subtle adumbration ends Part One and sets the stage for the next phase of the movie. Enter dream girl...
...this point, the viewer tolerates a certain modicum of fatuousness. But about half-way through the encounter scenes of the two lovers-to-be, one begins to have serious doubts about the movie. Caroline, the girl Elgin falls in love with, is played by Susan Dey--former member of the Partridge Family--who does a decent job, considering she must portray one of those vague people who consistently has trouble figuring out what it is all about...
Caroline attracts the very particular Elgin by looking aristocratic, reading French novels and expressing an affinity for the symphony, all of which somehow set her apart from the other girls on campus whom Elgin finds so vulgar and vapid. Caroline confesses her loneliness; Elgin decides this means she is looking for a meaningful relationship. He romantically believes the two of them will transcend the mundaneness of life. Then they discover...