A boy's best friend

Spanking the Monkey

(1994)

Huh: didn't realize when I queued this up that I was watching my second David O. Russell in a week. This is perhaps less risky (or at least risky in a more conventional way) than Huckabees, but it's also more successful. A sort of Gen X Graduate, only here the anxiety is whether graduation is even a possibility, and the older woman is not merely a friend of the family.