What is the first name of the person who has a sharp tongued mother?
The film begins when a private jet descends on a runway of a small airport in Collingswood, New Jersey. Famous movie director Gene Orman has visited the town to attend the premiere of his latest film, Sam's Son. On the way to the theater, he orders his driver to have the limo stop across the street from his childhood home where he grew up. He gets out and looks at the house, while tearfully saying, "We did it, Sam."
We are then transported back to the year 1953 when Gene was still known as Eugene Orowitz, an ordinary, shy teenager struggling with his identity. He has a father Sam, a movie theater manager who is constantly bullied and his sharp-tongue mother Harriet who has no patience for Eugene's privacy in the bathroom. Eugene also has a girlfriend Bonnie who grows increasingly disdained when with him, especially when the new transfer student and resident bully Bob Woods begins to take a liking to Bonnie. One night, when Eugene and Bonnie are at the movies, they are constantly harassed by Woods in the theater until Sam firmly escorts him out. To get revenge, he challenges Eugene to a fight when he takes Bonnie home, but Eugene doesn't back down and Woods calls him a wimp for chickening out. While running home, Eugene is met up with classmates who drag a reluctant Eugene to a rowdy neighborhood bar where they eventually get into a fight with a loutish patron, but they escape before the cops are called.
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