Adolescent French suburban lower-middle-class nerd Marc Morel was happy being the teacher's pet and school representative in a Latin competition. Until he meets and instantly falls in love with fatherless semi-illiterate shop clerk and ditto-daughter Martine Pérez. As his overbearing father Robert feared, stripling hormones run wild at the expense of academic future-building, but paternal authority is overruled by 'young love', which even yields peer-acceptance. Cool big brother Christian, a photographer, tries a more understanding approach, but even that runs into trouble.
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Roger Andrieux Director · Jean-Marie Bénard Writer Maxime Le Forestier Composer
First release September 7, 1977 · Original title L'Amour en herbe
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Original title
L'Amour en herbe
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · September 7, 1977
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No release date listed for United States.
Germany
November 25, 1977 · Theatrical
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