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Starring: Jan-Michael Vincent, Joan Goodfellow
Runtime: 100 minutes | Year: 1974 | Language: English
Runtime: 100 minutes | Year: 1974
Language: English
Genre: Romance | Drama | Coming-of-Age | Love Story | Country Life
Genre: Romance | Drama
Coming-of-Age | Love Story | Country Life
A moving 1948 Georgia love story of passion, courage, and devotion as two young hearts defy society to discover the true love everyone deserves.
Set in a small Georgia town in 1948, this poignant and unforgettable film tells the story of young love, fragile innocence, and the courage to follow one's heart against the odds.
Buster Lane (Jan-Michael Vincent) is the kind of young man everyone admires—handsome, popular, and the natural leader among his friends. Engaged to his pretty high-school sweetheart Margie Hooks (Pamela-Sue Martin), he appears to have the perfect life laid out before him. But behind the polished surface, Buster struggles with growing discontent. Margie insists they wait for marriage before sharing intimacy, and his friends find release by exploiting the vulnerability of Billie-Jo Truluck (Joan Goodfellow), a quiet, painfully shy girl from a poor family who knows little of the world outside her modest home.
Billie-Jo, desperate for affection, gives in to the boys' advances, mistaking attention for love. She lives in isolation, overlooked by nearly everyone, until Buster is drawn into her world. What begins as the same careless pursuit his friends indulge in gradually transforms into something deeper. Unlike the others, Buster begins to see Billie not as a conquest but as a kindred spirit—lonely, longing, and yearning for acceptance.
Soon, their secret meetings become a tender romance filled with first discoveries, joy, and an awakening of true love that neither has ever known. Buster buys Billie her first new dress, treating her with kindness and dignity—an act that leaves her deeply moved and cherished for the first time in her life. Together, they create a bond of happiness that feels unshakable, even as gossip, judgment, and disapproval swirl through their small town.
But happiness does not come without cost. Buster's decision to leave Margie and openly love Billie ignites fury among his friends, whose jealousy and resentment boil over. Their cruel plan to "teach Buster a lesson" will forever alter the lives of both young lovers.
Jan-Michael Vincent and Joan Goodfellow deliver powerful, heartfelt performances as two star-crossed souls fighting to hold onto love in a world unwilling to let them. Moving, romantic, and deeply emotional, this is a timeless story about the kind of true love everyone deserves—and the price that sometimes comes with it. A must-see for all who believe in love, courage, and the human heart.
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