# Creepiest 80's sex comedy?

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**Created:** [March 14, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526 "2005-03-14T21:49:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/61 "2006-03-31T17:15:12Z")

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> [@Harriet the Spry](#):
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> I can just barely remember enough to be almost useful. There was one about two teens and their parents. It had a lot of crossed communication that was truly funny, but I think there was a somewhat creepy premise in that some of the parents were having an affair, or getting a divorce, or something. Gakk, this is why I don’t post much about movies.

Ah. The SDMB. Where almost any obscure movie reference will find someone whose seen it! I believe this is the movie:

> **[Secret Admirer (1985) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089981/)**
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> Secret Admirer: Directed by David Greenwalt. With C. Thomas Howell, Lori Loughlin, Kelly Preston, Dee Wallace. An anonymous love letter left in Michael Ryan's locker on the last day of school wreaks havoc on his life and the lives of everyone who...

It only stuck in my mind because of the major crush I had on Lori Loughlin at the time. I thought the “parents story” was sorta funny with the miscommunication, but the teen love triangle (she liked him, he thought of her as a friend and he had a crush an another hottie) has been done to death.

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