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An old-fashioned teen sex comedy with a Gen Z twist

Otis (Butterfield) humors his embarrassing mother (Anderson)

AS THE WORLD CHANGES, AT LEAST one fact of teenage life remains constant: the typical American high schooler is a hormone-addled mess of insecurity, naiveté and horniness. It’s this truth that underlies the ever popular teen sex comedy—a genre that exploded in the 1980s with movies like Porky’s, The Sure Thing and Fast Times at Ridgemont High, then lived on in millennial touchstones such as American Pie and Superbad. But Gen Z, the

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