![]() Theresa takes a job teaching deaf children, and proves to be a gifted and caring teacher. ![]() Theresa finds first love and loses her virginity with her much older, married college professor Martin ( Alan Feinstein), who ends the affair just before her graduation, leaving Theresa feeling used and lonely. Meanwhile, her beautiful "perfect" older sister, Katherine (Weld), has left her husband and embarked on a wild lifestyle involving multiple affairs, a secret abortion, recreational drug use, and a short-lived marriage to a Jewish man. Theresa later finds out that her scoliosis is congenital and that her aunt had the same condition and committed suicide as a result, Theresa is reluctant to have children of her own. ![]() While in college, Theresa lives with her repressive Polish-Irish Catholic parents, and suffers from severe body image issues following a childhood surgery for scoliosis that left a large scar on her back. Set in the mid-1970s, the film traces the sexual awakening of Theresa Dunn (Keaton), a young Irish-American teacher searching for excitement outside her ordered life. ![]()
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