realistically and it be not exactly uncommon for adult ( especially male ) to be physically attract to someone who be young and even below the age of consent . someone who have just come into full physical development and someone who be fresh and lean and and taut and can be pretty exciting eye candy for more people than government and cultural leader would like to admit and it also a far cry from pedophilia ( key term be full physical development ) . but with this uncomfortable reality check should come another if you actually have a conversation with a 15 year old for more than three minute and you should realize why it completely inappropriate to date one . this film seem to be nothing more than a justification for such a relationship . and within this justification be one embarrassing scenario after another . the 29 year old eban character be completely infatuate with 15 year old charley and and eban woos in a variety of way that could only be construe a awkward and downright creepy ( this be not help by the amateur dialogue pause and the poor acting performance of brent fellow ) . even the writing and presentation of many of the scene intend to move the film audience be incredibly juvenile and something an adolescent might take seriously beyond an idle daydream . which bring me to another point . the controversial message of the film have one especially glare contradiction . if the film be try to open the mind of it audience and to break down the seemingly arbitrary barrier of age in the name of love and it actually end up underscore the inappropriateness of a relationship involve an adolescent and an adult . maybe this be all intend by writer or director james bolton and which would add an interesting dimension to the film and but judge by the place he take u and i somehow doubt it . at one point in the film eban declares and i like young people it be make clear that his attraction be exclusive to adolescent male . if eban discovers the spirit that love come before all else and in the face of all adversity and and that this be a good thing and one can not help but wonder what happen to the magical relationship when charlie pass into adulthood . and this be how the futility and inappropriateness of the relationship be inadvertently reveal . most importantly and one should remember and a physically develop a a 15 year old may be ( i. e. grass on the field ) and there be no 15 year old and no matter how bright and on what level of natural genius and that have reach an acceptably sane degree of emotional development . but it be also clear that the population of adult men and woman who do not see this in their pursuit of adolescent have severe emotional block of their own . all that say and my one extra star be mean to applaud the acting performance of both giovanni andrade and play charlie ( whose natural talent be mile ahead of brent fellow ( eban ) ) and and ron upton and who despite a lack of appearance play eban father with an act professionalism and skill not to be see elsewhere in the film .