An American Affair

When I read that American Affair was a coming-of-age story, where a thirteen-year-old boy discovers his attractive older female neighbor, I was thinking to myself "how many times are they going to The Graduate." A change here or a tweak there, the film has been done to death. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that this film was not so much about the boy as it was about the 1960s and the events surroun…