Pearl is a typically early 1960's housewife. She and her husband had a shotgun wedding when they were just teenagers, and now they have a teenage daughter and a young son themselves. After the couple decides to go stay in a bungalow on a small family resort for the summer, the hubbie is forced to stay behind because the TV repair shop he works at is swamped. Pearl stays at the resort with her kids and mother and law. Weekend after weekend she looks foward to her husband's arrival but work obligations always either keep him from coming or from staying long.
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Pearl is lonely and frustated, all the while developing a growing attraction for the hunky hippy blouse vendor who shows up at the resort a few times a week to sell wares to the female tourists out of his van. One day the blouseman gives Pearl a free trial of a sexy, skin tight tie-dyed number and gives her his phone number, suggesting that she call him if she wants to return it, or if she needs anything else.
The night that Pearl and her kids (as well as the other guests at the resort) are poised to watch the moonwalk on T.V., Pearl finds herself crushed to learn that her husband can't make it. So, she resorts to calling the blouse man and heading down to his place to watch it with him. They end up sleeping together. A day or two later they sneak off to the concert at Woodstock, where Pearl's daughter, who had been forbidden by Pearl to attend, spies Pearl clearly high on drugs and getting it on with "the blouseman." The daughter is flabbergasted by what she sees, but she tells no one.
Pearl's mother and law soon realizes that something fishy is going on. After warning Pearl in vain, the mother in law finally calls her son and tells him what's happening. The husband rushs down to the resort and threatens to drive off with the kids, but the kids get so upset that he ends up leaving them with their mom.
Pearl tries to reconcile with her husband, by explaining that she felt she missed out on certain chances by marrying at such a young age, without ever having been with another man. Her husband at first resents this, and points out that he never stopped her from pursuing the things she wanted in life, and that he gave up plenty too, but had found it all worth it, until then. The kids are heartbroken at seeing their parent's on the verge of divorce, but the move ends on a much more hopeful note. The couple gives into their deep love for one another. As they dance together to the radio, the husband (who had thus far been portrayed as something of a square) changes the radio station from soft oldies to a blaring Jimmy Hendrix riff, signifying his openness to change, so long as he and Pearl could embrace it together.
The review of this Movie prepared by Jennifer
