Teacher:In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: everybody in this film 's thinking of alicia .
no , this is not a documentary on those of us after we first saw the " cryin ' " video .
this is one of those erotic thrillers , but not like one starring shannon whirry or shannon tweed .
first off
, there 's zero sex , almost no nudity , and it 's not as well - plotted as one of those tweed flicks .
well , anyway .
the " plot .
" alicia plays , well , the babysitter , who is taking care of some kids one night while the parents ( j. t. walsh and lee garlington ) go out to a party .
the film , trying to be like one of those introspective erotic thrillers , shows every characters ' thoughts , except alicia 's .
the thing is alicia 's in most of them in most cases , and the thoughts are n't too kosher .
first off , there 's her boyfriend ( jeremy london , who gave one of the all - time lousy performances in " mallrats , " and is only a notch better here ) , who 's a dorky kid who hangs out with a kind of bully , played by nicky katt from " suburbia " ( who shows he 's got that quiet creepiness down pat once again ) .
they decide they want to crash her babysitting job , looking for the typical babysitting hanky - panky .
somethine like that .
the film intercuts between the subplots ( alicia babysitting , nicky and jeremy , the party ) and each characters ' thoughts .
we get to see jeremy and nicky 's dreams of doing a little threeway with alicia ,
j.
t. thinking of coming home to
find alicia naked in the bathtub
( she has it all covered up , the little tease ) , and , worst of all ,
lee garlington dreaming of that hunk , george segal .
it even shows them in bed together .
yea .
i so wanted to see george and lee garlington in bed , though i guess i 'm used to george after seeing her and mary tyler moore fooling around in " flirting with disaster .
"
the ending is some kind of big tragedy thing , but come on .
like we care about any of the characters .
the only interesting one is alicia , mainly because she 's alicia , and we mostly see her in the fantasies .
so i guess she 's some kind of mystery or something .
but she is never explored further .
so
, basically , this film is just a series of mastabatory images , sometimes featuring a non - nude alicia ( once again , sadly ) , sometimes featuring a scantily - clad george segal ( once again , sadly ) .
i watched this on one of those free previews of showtime or cinemax one night , and let me tell you , it is the only way to watch this film .
i mean
, there 's a reason they put these kinds of films on late at night : they 're just as good as sleeping pills .
and this one is one big fat waste of time ,
even for an alicia film .
Student:
N