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Come on, if you're a guy and you found Winona Ryder knocked out cold in a field, you'd want to take her home and 'get to know her a little better' too. And if you don't consider yourself much of a looker, maybe you wouldn't even wait until she was conscious.
So who can blame preppy schoolboy John (Lukas Haas) when he finds the unconscious Patty in the damp grass and sneaks her back to his dormitory for a case of: "let's get you out of that wet blouse..." She smiles sweetly at him, he grins inanely at her, and a unbelievable romance is quickly born.
That's basically the long, short and tall of it. He loves her, she's running away from a police investigation into a car theft. Yes, there are endless opportunities for teenage fumbling and farcical 'What girl? There's no girl in our dormitory?' deception.
If you've seen 'Before Sunrise', where Juile Delpy and Ethan Hawke meet for one hot night in cobbled Vienna, you'll instantly recognise the formula here.
Haas and Ryder look good on the screen, but they've got nothing interesting to say and, come the end, you can't help feeling that you've just endured rather than enjoyed
90 minutes of clichés, empty suspense and annoying flashbacks. Is it worth watching for Winona Ryder? To be honest, yes.
