Jeremy

Plot synopsis:
Jeremy Jones (Benson) is a shy, bespectacled Jewish fifteen-year-old living in a New York City apartment with his parents, who are busy with their own pursuits and leave him mostly on his own. He attends a private high school that focuses on the performing arts, where he is a serious student of cello who aspires to musical greatness. He has an after-school job as a dog walker. His other interests include reading poetry, playing chess and basketball, and following horse racing, where he can consistently pick winners, though he never places a bet himself. At school, he enters an empty classroom looking for chalk, sees a girl (O'Connor) inside practicing ballet, and is instantly smitten with her beauty. They talk briefly, but he is flustered and completely forgets to ask her name. He later finds out she is a new student named Susan Rollins, and that she is older than him and in a higher grade. Jeremy follows her from a distance for a few days, but is too shy to approach her, so his more confident friend Ralph takes matters into his own hands and explains the situation to her, and she sends the message back to Jeremy that he should call her. However, Jeremy decides not to call after seeing her walking with a handsome older boy. Shortly afterwards, Susan attends a school recital where Jeremy plays the cello as a featured soloist. She is impressed by his playing and congratulates him afterwards, motivating him to finally call her and ask her out.
On their first date, Jeremy finds out that Susan's mother is dead, and that she and her father just moved to New York from Detroit so her father could take a new job. Susan and Jeremy enjoy each other's company and they begin walking to school together every day, visiting places such as the park and racetrack, and generally spending a lot of time together for the next three weeks. Jeremy confides to Ralph that he is falling in love. One rainy afternoon while playing chess in Jeremy's room, Susan and Jeremy profess their love for each other and then make love for the first time.
Susan then returns home, only to find that her father has been offered a better job back in Detroit, so they will be leaving New York immediately, within the next couple of days. Susan tries to explain to her father that she is in love with Jeremy, but her father doesn't take it seriously because he thinks that the "three weeks and four days" that Susan and Jeremy have been seeing each other is not long enough to form a deep relationship. The next day a tearful Susan tells Jeremy the news and he is likewise stunned. He tries to reach out to both his father and Ralph to talk with them about his feelings, but neither one is receptive. In the end, Susan and Jeremy sadly say goodbye at the airport and she departs, leaving Jeremy alone again.

Tags: romantic

Review:
There was a girl my age that I liked a lot, that I took to the movie and we both identified with the main characters.
This movie was recently released in DVD.
We've all experienced those feelings in real life and I'd love to go through it all again.
Love coming of age...Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor were perfect in this movie.
You'll like the movie, I promise....
This little gem is one of the rare movies that one sees at a young age and it remains with you (at least if you are a prepubescent girl).
This was released in 1973, when I was 12 years old, and I saw it at a drive-in (believe it or not) and I still remember thinking how awesome (yet sad it was) and how I hoped upon hope that my first love would be a boy like Jeremy (wonderfully and sensitively played by Robbie Benson).The love story is sweet and realistic, Glynis O'Connor plays the female love interest of Jeremy and seems to me she and Robbie Benson were involved romantically in real life during the time the movie made, if so the affection and love they displayed on the screen seemed very real.I remember too that there was a brief nude scene, not graphic, but beautifully displayed, and all of this overwhelmed me at the age I was.
I would love to see this movie released on DVD.Why don't we see more of Robbie Benson?
One of the best teenage love stories ever..
I originally saw this movie in 1973 when I was 17 years old and it moved me deeply.
The sound track, which I have 3 copies of, was done superbly with the actors Robby Benson singing "Blue Balloon" and Glynnis O'Connor singing "Jeremy".
JEREMY is the most realistic and touching film of it's kind, that I had the pleasure of seeing when I was 19.
I understand that it was filmed in 16mm and blown up to 35mm for theatre presentation, which gives the movie an almost documentary - type look and feel.
Combined with understated performances by all involved, and an excellent "real-feeling" script, JEREMY avoids all the schmaltz and hyper-melodramatics usually associated with stories of this type.
I hate to use the phrase "little film", but it does have the charm of a smaller, independently - produced movie.
Before there was "FAME", this film about two students from the New York High School For The Performing Arts, who spend some time together and fall in love, only to be cruelly seperated in the end by unforseen circumstances, has remained a favorite of mine to this day.
I love this movie.
Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor are just great together.
If you like Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor together check them out in Ode To Billy Joe..
sweet little movie about a first love in high school.
I bought this movie on DVD in order to see it after reading about it in a book titled Shyness & Love by Dr. Brian G.
I can't say that I've ever seen a film more than twice in a theater, and that wasn't out of any great affection for those films, just that I'd seen them, and then a group of friends or family were going to see it and I went along.It is a nice movie.
A shy high school sophomore develops a crush on a new girl at school, and with some help from a more outgoing friend and the confidence playing the cello gives him, he asks her out and they date.
Perhaps had I seen it when I was about the same age as the couple, I'd have a great affection for it..
A beautiful story about first love.
A beautiful story about first love.
A beautiful story about first love.
If you like love story, watch this movie.
25 years later and I didn't forget Jeremy's songs.
I was a 12 years old when I saw "Jeremy" - here in Brazil, the title was "Susan and Jeremy - the first love".
I remember I loved the movie, I cried a lot.
After that age (today I'm 37), I've never seen this movie again, but - sometimes - I catch myself singing its song ('The hourglass song', I suppose).
I saw this film after reading the book and loved it just as much.
There are many things I enjoyed about the story/film such as the music, love and the cross town New York bus rides on a Saturday morning.
Bus it was the way Jeremy raced other people in the street as if he was in his own horse race-this may sound silly but worked really well and Robby Benson pulls it off in a brilliant touching way.
It shows a boy/young man in his own world finding someone who loved him for what he is.
The wonderful cello music holds the story together and is not heavy-handed which it could easily have been with a lesser cast and director.I would love to have the DVD and hope when it comes out there are plenty of extras such as location info and (lots)interviews.9.5 out of 10.
I watched this movie when I was 13, four times, in São Paulo...
I searched the record stores for it (and was sneered at, it was not "in" to like such a teen-movie!...), and found it!
I am definitely no fan of love stories, but there is something very special about this one.
Robby Benson portrays a young man who, while immersed in the ultra- (not to say pseudo-)sophisticated world of New York City teen life, manages to preserve a purity of character and honesty with those around him that is almost painful to watch.
I call the performance brilliant because I can't imagine that actor Benson himself could have been very much like this, though perhaps that's unfair: he has gone on to a quite respectable acting and directorial career.
This was Glynnis O'Connor's first movie, and she is lovely as well as sensitive in a quite delicate role.
I finished this movie feeling warm and rather good inside..
30 years ago and nothing has come close to this movie.
Seemingly little-known, Jeremy is a film I encountered through the recommendation of a radio critic to one of his lovelorn listeners (not me, I promise).
Sounding rather interesting, I decided to give it a go.The tale of first love and the enamouring wonder of teenage affection, Jeremy follows the titular character's rapid fall to the beauty of his beloved Susan.
The insistence of Jeremy's music teacher that "there's nothing wrong with being a good musician, you don't have to be great", as well as his father's claims that "you can't do two things at the same time and do 'em both well", lay a poignant foundation for later scenes.
The first time we meet Susan coincides with her and Jeremy's first meeting, an amusingly sweet scene that might, in other less well constructed circumstances, have seemed sickeningly saccharine.
It is from this point that the film's general tone becomes apparent: a tone which almost forces us to feel the same emotions as the characters.
Never overbearing, the film keeps us on the same emotional tier as Jeremy and Susan, their growing love an accurate mirror of the audience's gradual inclination towards loving the movie itself.
Generally, the film would not suffer from a slightly more proficient cast, though this is almost completely forgotten in the warming aura of love's allure.
Perhaps suffering from shortness a tad, the film gives its hero and heroine a little too little time together, though a wonderful central scene of physical culmination represents the beautiful peak of the piece, and of teen romance films in general.Not without its flaws (though what movie ever was?), Jeremy is an eminently likable film which portrays one of the most realistic and memorable relationships the big screen has seen.
Amicable, amiable, affable, and adorable, the film is in every way to us what Susan is to Jeremy: beautiful; irresistible; unforgettable..
"Jeremy" is a lovely story of two rather awkward, sincere teens who meet, fall in love, and part on a very sad note.
Robby Benson is perfect in the title role, smart, funny but not obnoxious, quietly full of feeling for this little girl he's in love with.
The New York City locations add a perfect backdrop to their story.The sweetness and sincerity of the two leads is really something to behold, with no glamorizing or slickness thrown on to wreck it.
For their first date, Jeremy offered a showing of "My Little Chickadee" for crying out loud -- and Susan was thrilled!
I was sad at the end of this not just because of the heartbreaking situation faced by Jeremy and Susan, but because of how far it seems we've all gotten from the simplicity and sweetness seen here..
Bored with the types of movies that are shown on any cable television in any country across the globe (even with 200 channels)  I always find it hard to make a decision on what to watch.
This movie was shown on UPC Dutch TV, and reading somewhat good reviews on IMDb, I decided to watch it.At first sight, Jeremy Jones (Robby Benson) a young boy falls in love with a newcomer girl Susan Rollins (Glynnis O-Connors) at school.
After a few awkward meetings, they start liking each other, go together, and its special confused adolescent moments  make love, discuss life, know each other, enjoy each other's company  before the inevitable strikes.
With so much sadness both this young souls depart.This is a beautiful simple FIRST LOVE story of any young souls.
There is not much coming in the way of their love  which is a relieving part of the story.
The supporting cast  especially Jeremy friend, his musical teacher and Susan father  give a very understated but human character.
Their responses to this teenage love stays with you in formulating your own responses in life.Both Robby Benson and Glynnis O-Connors give the best performances of their career that spans (for both of them) to nearly more than 55 acting projects in last 35 years.
But this role will remain their most loved and well remembered.
Both are so comfortable with each other  especially in those delicately filmed love making scenes  that it surely must be hard for the director and acting to film that successfully.The Director Arthur Barron has done a very decent job in taking out performances from these young stars  who look so natural and full of honest love.
He makes this movie still watchable and relevant, even after 35 years.
This Director made only two feature films in his career, and mainly devoted his time for television.A special mention of the theme song of this movie  Hour Glass  which is still hummable and pleasing to hear even today.
It is a classic.I would strongly recommend the movie to each and every adolescent to see and make it a part of their growing up years.(Stars 7 out of 10).
Most of the times these movies were dull and boring, but then...
And I still am looking for a chance to see the movie again.
I still remember however how the movie touched me, and I still can do the "horse-sound" by clicking with my fingers as Jeremy did.
Does anybody know if this movie can be bought on DVD?
"I've got The New York Times," warbles Jeremy, the angelic Jewish teenager who gets straight As, reads Thomas Mann and Emily Dickinson, plays classical cello and falls in love with a ballet student.
But don't think that Jeremy isn't a Regular Guy: he also likes rock music, plays basketball, hangs out with street-smart Ralphie and has a knack for picking winning horses (although he never bets: that wouldn't be sweet).
This preening New York self-love, this compound of populism and culture-vulturism--this ingratiating depiction of the ideal Manhattan adolescent--is more irritating now than when I was Jeremy's age: too often, it strikes me as tony, cute and smug.
Nevertheless, after 37 years, the movie still has winning moments, and the young Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor give appealing performances (which they never equalled).
Exceptionally bright teenage boy, a cello student at a professional school in New York City, falls in love for the first time with a newly-enrolled dancer just relocated from Detroit.
Jeremy (nicely played by a young Robby Benson) is intelligent without being a nerd, talented without alienating his friends, and quietly, jokingly rebellious with his humorless father without being a smart-ass.
It gained some recognition once it played on cable in the late 1970s--and after Robby Benson and co-star Glynnis O'Connor were re-teamed in 1976's "Ode to Billy Joe".
Early 70's teenagers coming of age and falling in love in the big city.
Released in 1973, "Jeremy" stars Robby Benson as a 16 year-old cellist in the Big Apple who falls for a new girl in school (Glynnis O'Connor).
Len Bari plays the boy's best friend and Leonardo Cimino his cello teacher while Ned Wilson plays the girls likable father.This has the same tone as 1970's "Love Story," except that it deals with young high school students rather than college-age (interestingly, Benson and O'Connor were the same age as their characters during filming, 16 and 17 respectively).
I like it better than that more popular flick mainly because the girl is more palatable than Ali MacGraw, to say the least; not to mention the story's less downbeat.
This is just a quiet, sweet and beautiful love story of city teenagers that smacks of real life.
I did; several times.This was only Benson's second film and he had what it takes to carry it, along with the winsome O'Connor.
Being only 16, he looks way geekier than later films.
Speaking of which, "Jeremy" is sort of the precursor to 1976's "Ode to Billy Joe" since both flicks star Benson and O'Connor as teen lovers, although they're a year or two younger in "Jeremy," not to mention in the big city rather than rural Mississippi.
While "Jeremy" is good for what it is it's unable to breach the threshold of greatness like "Ode." The film runs 90 minutes and was shot entirely in New York City.GRADE: B.
Rare single on Ebay Blue Balloon Ronny Benson Jeremy Glyniss O'Connor.
Hi On Ebay i saw the rare (never released) promo of the single Blue Balloon (The hourglass song) and on side B: Jeremy sung by Glyniss O'Connor.
Ebaynumber 300604516334 Or just search for Jeremy Robby Benson.
Both songs are beautiful and i think that because of the movie, it would be a huge hit.
Good luck for all your Jeremy fans and keep enjoying the song and movie.
A lovely and moving teen romance gem.
Studious, lonely and awkward straight A student and cellist Jeremy (an excellent and engaging performance by Robby Benson) meets and immediately falls head over heels in love with shy and sweet new girl in school Susan Rollins (a fine and captivating portrayal by the radiant Glynnis O'Connor).
Writer/director Arthur Barron tells the simple, yet touching and compelling story with great heart and sensitivity, placing the key emphasis on the tremendously appealing lead characters.
Moreover, the chemistry between Benson and O'Connor is wonderfully warm, affecting, and utterly convincing (the fact that they were both actual teenagers when they did this film gives the picture a substantial amount of genuine credibility).
Their one big love scene is exceptionally tender and special.
--mild spoilers ahead--But this look at teen-age first love speaks to me very personally (shy west side NYC kid falls for beautiful, popular girl only to lose her to outside forces).
So even such cringe worthy elements as Robby Benson and Glynnis O"Connor singing not-very-good pop odes to love on the soundtrack can't keep this from making me remember and cry.Interestingly, though, talking to others of my generation (I'm 50) I was fascinated to find I was far from alone in having this heart/head split in reaction to the film.
But for a really great look at teen first love, I recommend Roy Andersson's wonderful "A Swedish Love Story" - hard to find, but worth it..
Loved it by the second time.
Well, I own the soundtrack by Lee Holdridge for some years now, so I ordered the DVD to see "Jeremy".
When I first saw the movie a few months ago, I thought to myself: Gee, what a jerk Jeremy is!
When I saw the film again a few days ago, I saw a completely different movie.
A movie made by a director who really cares about the young couple.
You will probably rarely find a film which describes the discovery of love and understanding in such subtle, empathetic and unspectacular pictures.
But at no time - and that is a great quality of this movie - it becomes gooey or cheap.
Once or twice I thought to discover a certain failing in the acting of Robby Benson, but all in all the actors did a very good job!
Later on I told to myself: What a lucky guy Jeremy was to meet a girl like Susan.
I would have given all to meet anyone like her when I was that age, but hey, it's an invented character and not a real person.
By the way it's hard to believe that the director Arthur Barron only made few other films after "Jeremy" and nearly only for television..
I find this movie quite slow and monotonous most of the time.
Maybe part of it because the way it was shot, too much close-ups that I was longing to see the setting as to establish the feeling of place.As for the actors, they are really trying to do a great job until they kiss.
The reason for the three stars is that because the story speaks of love and separation that could happen.