| Sweet Substitute | |
| Director: | Larry Kent |
| Producer: | Larry Kent |
| Starring: | Bob Howay Angela Gann Carol Pastinsky Lanny Beckman |
| Music: | Jack Dale |
| Cinematography: | Richard M. Bellamy |
| Editing: | Shelah Reljic |
| Studio: | Larry Kent Productions |
| Distributor: | Joseph Brenner Associates |
| Runtime: | 81 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
Sweet Substitute, retitled Caressed in the United States, is a Canadian drama film, directed by Larry Kent and released in 1964.[1]
The film centres on Tom (Bob Howay), a high school student whose efforts to secure an academic scholarship to university are complicated by his sexual compulsions.[2] He is caught in a love triangle between Elaine (Angela Gann), a prim and proper girl who is saving herself for marriage, and Kathy (Carol Pastinsky), a more sexually available girl whom Tom impregnates.[3]
It was a Canadian Film Award nominee for Best Picture at the 17th Canadian Film Awards in 1965, but did not win.
It was part of a retrospective screening of Kent's films, alongside The Bitter Ash, When Tomorrow Dies and High, which screened at a number of venues in 2002 and 2003, including Cinematheque Ontario in Toronto, the Pacific Cinémathèque in Vancouver and the Canadian Film Institute in Ottawa.[4]