I saw this on Home Box Office (now HBO) when I was 14. An semi-arthouse movie set in England based on a novel by Yukio Mishima.
With Sara Miles, Kris Kristofferson and Jonathan Kahn.
Jonathan Kahn as Sara Miles son. He runs around with a gang of tweens led by a sadistic tweenage Nietzschean (Earl Rhodes). Jonathan discovers a knothole in the wall between his room and his mother's and starts spying on her which is every bit as perverse as it sounds. She starts sleeping with Kris Kristofferson who plays the first officer on an ocean freighter.
The kids drug and dissect a live cat. A disclaimer at the end assures us that "no living animal" was harmed in the making of the movie, and watching the scene again, I'm sure that was true.
Sara Miles and Jonathan Kahn won Golden Globes for their performances.
Critics at the time complained that the thing with the kids was implausible. I don't know. Weren't there a couple of episodes of Dragnet where teens are led astray by a charismatic classmate?
It might make a double feature with Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, another movie about a boy with mixed feelings about his widowed mother dating Kris Kristofferson.
Available on Fandor.
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