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This Is Our Youth

Political philosophy professor Andrew (Jeff Roop) has taken it upon himself to mentor Georgie (Vanessa Parise), a working class woman with only a high school education, and their combined efforts have snagged her a job as secretary to Andrew’s longtimg friend, lawyer Edward (Robin Dunne). Things have been going swimmingly for Georgie in her new station in life until today, when she threw a pencil at Edward in reaction to his attempt at in-office, after-hours seduction. (He’d wanted to “have a debate about the pros and cons of whether or not I should screw him,” Georgie tells a shocked Andrew.) Not long after this revelation comes Georgie’s own (unsuccessful) attempt to seduce Andrew, and the college professor’s admission that he may possibly have given his lawyer friend permission to “ask her out.”

 

When Edward visits Andrew’s apartment the following day, he paints quite a different picture of the alleged sexual harassment, for it turns out that Edward has come over to his friend’s (and secretary’s) building to take Georgie out on a date, one which she appears quite eager to go on.  Matters become even more complicated when Georgie later confesses to Andrew that she’s in love with him, a problem which clearly conflicts the prof since he’s got a fiancée Lydia (Katie Walder), who used to date Edward, and since he seems to be protesting a bit too much that his interest in Georgie is purely platonic.

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