Today’s blast from the past comes to use from 1982.

In A Very Delicate Matter, teenager Kristin Sorenson (Lori-Nan Engler) spends the summer working at a camp.  After her nominal boyfriend, Greg Pscharapolus (Zach Galligan), fails to call her even once, Kirstin ends up dating her superhot co-worker, Larry (future daytime drama star Grant Aleksander, making his television debut).  Once summer ends, Kristin returns home where Greg apologizes for not calling her.  Kristin takes Greg back and decides not to tell him about Larry.  But then Kristin gets a call from Larry.  Larry tells her that she might want to go by the free clinic and get some penicillin because Larry’s got gonorrhea and there’s a good chance to Kristin now has it as well.  And, since Kristin and Greg previously spent a day making up, Greg might have it too!

The plot description probably makes A Very Delicate Matter sound considerably campier than it is.  For the most part, this is a sensitive and nonjudgmental film, one in which no one is portrayed as being a villain.  (As one doctor points out, even Larry showed more courage than most by immediately calling Kristin and letting her know what was going on.)  While the two leads both give good performances (with Galligan just two years away from starring in Gremlins), the film is stolen by Marta Kober and John Didrichsen, who play the best friends of Kristen and Greg and who have a nice flirtatious chemistry with each other.  Just because your friend has a social disease, the film seems to be saying, don’t give up on love.  Marta Kober is probably best known for Friday the 13th Part 2, which featured its own warning about having unprotected sex at a summer camp.