I REMEMBER SEEING THIS FILM WHEN I WAS ABOUT 14...I THOUGHT IT IT WAS JUST ANOTHER "STAY HOME, DON'T RUNAWAY OR U WILL BECOME A WHORE...MOVIE1ST OF ALL I SAW EVE PLUMB IN "DAWN, PORTRAIT OF A TEENAGE RUNAWAY"...N THOUGHT ABOUT IT...LOL...BUT SERIOUSLY...I WAS 13 N REALIZED I MIGHT BE GAY,SO SEEING LEIGH IN THAT FILM 1ST, THEN IN HIS OWN FEATURE...I DECIDED 2 CHECK THIS OUT MYSELF. SO I STARTED 2 GO INTO BOSTON'S "COMBAT ZONE N PARK SQUARE AREA"...KNOWN 2 B WHERE MOST OF THE TEENAGE RUNAWAYS HERE WOULD END UP. SO AFTER COMING 2 TOWN ALMOST EVERY WEEKEND, N MAKING FRIENDS LIKE ME..."THE GAY YOUTH MARKET"...BUT 1 NIGHT WE WENT 2 HAVE BREAKFAST AT KENS REST. N WE TALKED ABOUT FINDING OUT THAT THEY WERE GAY, WE ALL MENTION THIS FILM...LOLAND WE HAD ALL SEEN IT, N NEW WE COULD FIND A WAY 2 COME OUT, ALBEIT, REMEMBER THIS WAS 1978 N THEY WOULD HAVE RATHER PUT U 2 SLEEP, THEN ADMIT THEY HAD A GAY SON...FUNNY HOW WE LEARNED SO MUCH, FROM MOVIES MEANT 2 "WARN US"... GO ASK ALICE...I FOUND N SMOKED MY 1ST JOINT...LINDA BLAIR, SARAH T. TEENAGE ALCOHOLIC...NEXT DANCE EVERYONE WAS STARTING 2 DRINK...SO GOOD OR BAD (THEME MOVIES)...THEY DID HELP,(OR HINDERED) OUR TEEN-YEARS...I LOOK BACK WITH LOVE N RESPECT 4 THE KIDS I MET THERE...N STILL HAVE STRONG FRIENDSHIPS 2 THIS DAY, N IT'S BECAUSE OF SEEING THIS FILM. WE ALL HAD SHARED A MEMORY... N I DON'T THINK THEY WOULD EVEN MAKE THOSE FILMS TODAY...THE 70'S...WAS A DECADE OF REALISM...WITH THAT, I CAN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THE CHARLIE SHEEN MOVIE...DIDN'T SEE IT, I WAS NOT WORRIED ABOUT TEEN SUICIDE...FUNNY IT'S ON A DBL BILL WITH ALEX...BUT U SEE IT, N SEE 4 URSELF...IF U CAN FIND IT ??? DONALD DELORME @"D. N D. PRODUCTIONS"...GOOGLE.COM