Boy Meets Girl (1982) User Reviews

Adolescent adjustment at a children's summer camp.

[srmccarthy · 6/10 · 16 July 2000]

This movie is about children at a summer camp, however, its main focus is upon a young girl who is not used to the treatment of a child in her situation. For one, she must learn to shower with other girls AND BOYS. Her real problems begin when she is set up by a jealous girl, and she must prove her innocence.

For the most part, I like sub-titled movies over dubbed, However this one was dubbed well enough that it does not take away from the plot. Also, I appriciate that a sing & dance was left in the original language!

A slow tale with much potential, but poor realization of that potential

[worlock-2 · 5/10 · 30 December 2003]

10-year-old Aya, the only daughter of two doctors doctors from Tel Aviv who are leaving on a trip to help Thai refugees, is placed in a kibutz where she must deal with the challenges of living with dozens of other children in a dormitory-style setting, four children per room, and placed without regard to gender.

The story can be broken into two parts. The story of Aya is a wonderful, slow-moving story of a shy and quiet girl, unused to the press and rush of living with other children, who strives to find her niche in the social sphere of the kibutz. Naturally, she develops both friends and enemies, and although the acting of the all the children tends to be rather wooden, this story is quite well done.

The second part of the story is the peripheral support to Aya's story. We see life around the kibutz, and the children's interactions with each other and with the adults. This part of the story lacks cohesion, the plots are sketchy, often without understandable motivations, and scenarios that strain credulity.

This is a film that had a story to tell, but it was unable to pull the pieces together into a cohesive unit. I give it a 5/10

What I do for Cannon

[BandSAboutMovies · 3/10 · 4 March 2022]

When two doctors from Tel Aviv join Doctors Without Borders, they end up going to Thailand and leaving their ten-year-old daughter Aya behind in a kibbutz (a communal settlement where all wealth is held in common and profits are reinvested) where the kids live together by age, not gender, meaning that she must go from being an only child to suddenly being surrounded by boys who even shower with her.

Made in Israel by director and writer Michal Bat-Adam, this is an early Cannon release by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus as they started to figure out what their new American studio was going to be.

Honestly, if you told me that I'd be watching a movie that has a fight between kids over a stamp collection, I would tell you that you were crazy. But if you said, well, it's a Cannon movie, then I'd say, "Well, put it on." I'm a completist. Movies are drugs. This one didn't get me high, but I smoked it down to the filter and burned my finger to find out if it would.

Was bad by end

[lilpest9 · 1/10 · 7 April 2022]

Seemed like pretty good picture about a little Jewess at a boarding school or something. The lead is cute and there's bunch of fun bits with all the kids. But its hard telling them apart because there's a bunch of them.

But there is a scene where there is smoking. Is bad picture.