Sweet Substitute (film)

Sweet Substitute, retitled Caressed in the United States, is a Canadian drama film, directed by Larry Kent and released in 1964.[1]

Sweet Substitute
Directed byLarry Kent
Written byLarry Kent
Produced byLarry Kent
StarringBob Howay
Angela Gann
Carol Pastinsky
Lanny Beckman
CinematographyRichard M. Bellamy
Edited byShelah Reljic
Music byJack Dale
Production
company
Larry Kent Productions
Distributed byJoseph Brenner Associates
Release date
November 1964
Running time
81 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The film centres on Tom (Bob Howay), a high school student whose efforts to secure an academic scholarship to university are complicated by his sexual compulsions.[2] He is caught in a love triangle between Elaine (Angela Gann), a prim and proper girl who is saving herself for marriage, and Kathy (Carol Pastinsky), a more sexually available girl whom Tom impregnates.[3]

It was a Canadian Film Award nominee for Best Picture at the 17th Canadian Film Awards in 1965, but did not win.

It was part of a retrospective screening of Kent's films, alongside The Bitter Ash, When Tomorrow Dies and High, which screened at a number of venues in 2002 and 2003, including Cinematheque Ontario in Toronto, the Pacific Cinémathèque in Vancouver and the Canadian Film Institute in Ottawa.[4]

References
  1. "UBC graduate plans his third movie". Brandon Sun, August 6, 1965.
  2. "Caressed: gutsy view of teen lust". The Globe and Mail, June 24, 1967.
  3. "Centre Changing Image". Ottawa Journal, January 18, 1968.
  4. Matthew Hays, "Catch up on your Kent". The Globe and Mail, February 1, 2003.


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