Getting It On

7/13/2024

**_Not as distasteful as “Porky’s” but not as good as “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”_** A 14 years-old teen in Hickory, North Carolina, gets ahold of some video recording equipment and wastes no time taping his attractive neighbor and other females. "Getting It On" (1983) was shot in twenty-four days in October, 1982, under the more accurate name “American Voyeur” for $220,000, which would be about $693,000 today (factoring inflation). It’s a teen sex dramedy that’s not as raunchy as "Porky's” from two years prior, but it’s not as palatable as “Valley Girl.” It lands somewhere in between. It has some appeal as a coming-of-age in the 80s flick and there are a few attractive females (with three briefly shown top nude, just a heads up). Plus, it seems to have a good heart underneath