i love this movie when i catch it late night on a cable channel and be not sorry i stay up most of the night watch this saga of two boy in love ( or and at least one of them play by ben silverstone ) . few movie have the power to move you and and this one do me . i felt steven pain a he pin for the brad gorton character and john and especially after the two hook up . john be the macho and popular jock and and have to keep up appearance and even if it mean humiliate steven publicly with his friend . the scene that mean the most to me and that resonate the most with me be the scene in the gym where steven be dance with his best girlfriend and john be with his girlfriend . the two barely take their eye off each other . i and myself and have experience such a moment . not quite the same a that where i wasn not dance with anyone at the time and but the girl i love and still love be and and we maintain eye contact despite her dancing with someone else . that scene rip at my heartstrings . i do not know if john be in love with steven . possibly . but steven be in love with john . steven come out at the end in a most dramatic way at a school assembly when he accept an award with john look on and but john never come out at all . john and in my estimation and be bisexual or bi curious and not a confirmed homosexual like steven . maybe i be wrong about that . we do not know . it seem that the two of them do not get back together by the end and and we a the audience be leave hanging and leave to guess what happen after the dramatic school assembly come out . the movie be funny and charming and somewhat kitschy and and poignant . i recommend it to any young person and straight or gay and and any old person who want to re live the pang of youth and unrequited ( or requite . if temporarily a here ) first love .