Home Before Midnight (1979)

As hitchhiker Ginny Wilshire, Alison Elliott is pure giddy pleasure in British director Pete Walker's Home Before Midnight (1979). Alison hops on in with pop-music writer James Aubrey, and the two make a dinner date for that night. It all sounds great to Ali, who is all over the idea of knowing a big wheel in the music biz, and before the evening's end they're making the bedsprings play percussion. But soon it's James's heart that's banging like a drum when he finds out that what has turned to true love is truly, madly, deeply illegal: Ali is all of fourteen years old! He seems okay with it, she's always been okay with it, and so they get on with it, making sweet, unlawful heavy-petting sounds. But the good vibrations turn ugly when they reach the ears of Ali's purportedly liberal parents, Juliet Harmer and Mark Burns. God only knows what will happen to James when the law shuts down his teenage symphony, but you know it won't be half as pretty as Ali. Just as pretty as Ali (but twice as easy!) is Debbie Linden, who plays Ali's pal--don't miss this gal.