CALENDAR GIRL is a hackneyed period comedy and coming-of-age saga in which three graduating high school seniors head west to meet the girl of their dreams, Marilyn Monroe. It seems cobbled together out of every pop-culture cliche that 30 years of television specials and Time-Life
pictorials have heaped upon us. Held together at every turn by a cheeky, retrospective voiceover lifted straight out of "The Wonder Years," and looking like it was researched at a T-shirt shop down at the mall, it wants desperately to be SUMMER OF '42 or STAND BY ME, but succeeds as little more
than a "Happy Days" for the Gap Generation.
Scott (Jerry O'Connell), Roy (Jason Priestley)...
Released:
1993
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
92 mins