Buddy System

IMDb link: 0087006
IMDb rating: 5.8 (1,549 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Glenn Jordan
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Nancy Allen, Jean Stapleton and others

Release date: 20 Jan 1984
Release year: 1984
Runtime: 110 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: 10 year old boy, boy, 10 year old, love triangle, inventor, mother son relationship, single mother, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, invention, primary school student

Plot:

A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. The truant officer waffles between a sadistic relationship with his on-again, off-again girlfriend and the mother. When one of the officer's inventions takes off, he chooses the girl and shatters the friendship with the boy and his mother. Only at the last possible moment does he figure out what he's sacrificed, and attempts to get it back.

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