John Baker Jr. (Lukas Haas) is a boy bored with his life at an upper middle class boarding school, and the prospect of his future running the family grocery store chain. He no longer sees the point in school, stating what's the difference if he gets a zero attendance for being three minutes late or skipping the whole class so he might as well skip the class. Now close to graduating from boarding school, his life is turned upside down when he rescues Patty Vare (Winona Ryder), a young woman he finds lying unconscious in a field. Patty regains consciousness that evening in John's dormitory. She stays awake long enough to tell him she will not go to a doctor, and then passes out and does not awaken until the next morning. She seems to recover completely and to be grateful for John's assistance; the two begin a romantic voyage of self-discovery. This is not without its problems, as other boys in the dorm quickly find out she is being hidden in his room, leading up to a dramatic confrontation with Baker's close friends where his 'best friend' becomes enraged and punches a wall, breaking his hand, while the two continue to argue over the reason as to why Baker has hidden her in his room.
MPAA Rating: | PG-13 |
Genre: | Drama, Mystery, Romance |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | Ted Field, Erica Huggins, Rudd Simmons, Scott Kroopf, Paul Feldsher, Peter Frankfurt, Robert W. Cort |
Directed By: | Stacy Cochran |
Written By: | Stacy Cochran, James Salter |
Cast: | David Paulson, Catherine Keener, David Newsom, Chris Cooper, Marty McDonough, Spencer Vrooman, Brandi Burkhardt, Carter McNeese, Al Sotto, Skeet Ulrich, Winona Ryder, Bill Sage, Maddie Corman, James Le Gros, John C. Reilly, Charlie Hofheimer, Andy Davis, Christopher Pettiet, Vivienne Shub, Lukas Haas, Wiley Wiggins, Cheryl Goode, Angela Hall, Russell Young, Matt Malloy, Jessica Harper, Rob Carlton |
In Theaters: | May 10, 1996 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 26 minutes |
Box Office: | $516,350 |