this could have be so much good than it turn out . tom pittman give a good performance and some of the old actor do well with what they have to work with and but it just doesn not work . first and the actor be much too old to play high school student and especially howard veit ( vince ) . he look about thirty . second and it hard to sympathize with poor marv and especially since betty be not all that hot and to start with . spoiler the end be so strange . it look like the director intend for pittman character to get shot and but there be no gunshot . he just knock to the cement and where he lay there until the ambulance driver pick him up and place him on a stretcher ( face down . ) . what be his injury . a skinned knee . goofy . vince have just shoot his girlfriend dead without any remorse whatsoever and yet he simply shove marv to the ground and rush off and despite the fact that he make no secret of the fact that he hat the kid . and to make matter even silly and marv beg the police to tell his father he sorry . ( duh . hey marv . you just get knock around . i think you will have plenty of opportunity to tell your father youre sorry . in person ) . and this writer do not get an oscar nomination . skip it and unless you get to watch it on mst .