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(1988)Directed by David Anspaugh105 min · PG-13Drama, Romance

“Love doesn't have to last a lifetime.”

Matt Larkin (Andrew McCarthy) is a Cincinnati college student who breaks off his engagement after meeting Jewel (Molly Ringwald), a backwoods Kentucky girl at a party. She says she's 20, but he soon learns she is 16 and married to a husband who hurts her. David Anspaugh follows Matt as he keeps driving south to see her, giving up the life that was laid out for him.