Jeremy (1973) on Netflix
PG19731h 30mDramaFamilyRomance
Jeremy, a shy fifteen-year-old cellist in New York, spots Susan practicing ballet at their performing arts school and is smitten. Too nervous to approach her, he follows her from a distance.
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Plot summary
Jeremy Jones is a shy fifteen-year-old who lives with his parents in a New York City apartment and studies cello at a private performing arts high school, where he aspires to musical greatness. He walks dogs after school, reads poetry, plays chess and basketball, and follows horse racing without placing a bet. Looking for chalk in an empty classroom, he finds Susan Rollins practicing ballet and is taken with her. They speak briefly, and he forgets to ask her name. She is a new student, older and in a higher grade. He trails her for a few days, too shy to approach, until Ralph, a more confident friend, explains the situation to her and sends back word that she wants him to call. Then he sees her with an older boy and decides not to call.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jeremy (1973)
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- Composer Joseph Brooks filed a dispute with United Artists claiming he had conceived Jeremy, written most of its script, cast and packaged the film with producer Elliott Kastner, and directed most of it until Kastner fired him and replaced him with Arthur Barron, who Brooks said had been an assistant.
- Robby Benson said his love scene with Glynnis O'Connor was very uncomfortable because Joseph Brooks wanted the two of them completely nude and then kissed the 16-year-old actress to show Benson how to do it.
- The nude sex scene between Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor caused controversy: both were 16 and so minors at the time of filming. Benson said his parents consented on the conditions that no frontal nudity be shown and that he and O'Connor not be fully nude, and that they wore flesh-colored underwear.
- In a 1970s study of "love-shy" men by Dr. Brian G. Gilmartin, Jeremy was the favorite film of the 300 men in it: 17 had seen it 20 or more times, one 86 times, and another spent $1,000 on an illegal 16 mm print despite earning $9,000 a year and receiving food stamps.
- Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor began dating in real life during production of Jeremy, leading to a long-term relationship, and they appeared together again in the 1976 film Ode to Billy Joe.
