For example is a young Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), has an affair with Ruth (Cloris Leachman), who is a 40-year-old woman, and is married to the school football coach who displays an alternative lifestyle preference. Additionally, Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd), exhibits behaviors with the encouragement of her mother, Lois (Ellen Burstyn) who tells Jacy to marry a rich man for money and not love. Bogdanovich depicts the women in the town as desperate to find a mate as there is no available men in town. Lois seems to want to guide Jacy into a life she has created for herself, which she does not seem to be content with. Consequently, the women in the film seem to have an obsession with sex instead of their own future educational needs to become independent and