The diner is owned by Sobieski's family. So, when the court case wraps up and Klein and Harnett are sentenced to a summer's hard labour rebuilding the destroyed diner, that forces a closeness for all concerned, leaving room for the cliched romantic triangle to rear its ugly head. Kids fall in love. Somebody gets sick. Lots of banal things are tossed around in conversation.
Adults are horrified.
Sure enough, when the reel was corrected and re-screened, it played out as predicted. Not incidentially, this is one of those movies that would actually benefit from being upside down and backwards. Klein's performance is particularly galling. Stone-faced and miserable most of the time, his character and his acting both suggest that he, too, would rather be on Mars. As for Sobieski, she has a radiant glow to her face that suggests a young Ingrid Bergman, at least in energy.