Out At Last 5: Striptease

In early 1980s L.A., high school student Gary works as a pizza delivery boy for Pink Pizza after school. His best friends are Rick, a slick-talking ladies' man, and the obese David. While at a soda shop one night, Gary notices Karen, a new student who has just moved to the area, and her new best friend, Rose. Gary instantly falls in love with Karen. Afterward, Gary meets up with Rick and David inside the soda shop, and the three boys pick up three girls with the false promise of offering them cocaine. At Gary's house, the boys present Sweet'n Low to the girls, who snort it. Rick and David prepare to have sex with two of the girls, leaving Gary paired with the overweight Millie. As Gary attempts to cut off Millie's bra with scissors, his parents return home, stopping his plans and forcing him and his friends to flee. In the locker room at school the next day, Gary, Rick, David, and others find their classmate Victor spying on the girls' locker room through a peephole and tease him. Angry, Victor asserts he has a larger penis than all of them, prompting the boys to have a contest where they measure each other's erections to see whose is largest. A love triangle develops between Gary, Rick, and Karen. To complicate matters, Karen’s best friend Rose also ends up falling for Gary. After obtaining Karen's address through David, Gary drives to her house one morning and deflates her bike tires so he can offer her a ride to school. During and after the ride, Gary tries to woo Karen and invites her to a party at David's house, but she does not reciprocate his feelings. That evening, Gary attends the party and is devastated to find Karen with Rick. Rose tries to dance with Gary and woo him over, but he isn't interested. As Rick and Karen dance together, they kiss, marking the beginning of their relationship. Gary tries to entice Karen away from Rick, but fails. After Gary becomes drunk and makes a fool of himself, David tells him to go home and sleep it off, but when Gary arrives home, he creates an embarrassing scene in front of his parents' dinner guests. One day, Gary delivers pizza to a lonely customer named Carmela, a lovely Latina whose sailor boyfriend is never home. She tells him she wants more than pizza and tries to entice him into her bedroom. Afraid to follow through, he leaves after the pizza delivery and convinces his friends to return to her house with him. They all drive back to her, and she dances a striptease and provides alcoholic beverages to the boys. She then lures them to her bedroom one by one. Carmela has sex with Rick and David, but before Gary has his shot, Carmela’s boyfriend Paco returns home, prompting the boys to flee the house as fast as they can, and they speed away in Gary’s car. To keep Rick and Karen apart, Gary and David persuade Rick to join them with a prostitute known to work a busy highway corner in the neighborhood. They all have a tryst with her, chipping in for the cost of her services. Gary is pushed to go first, and his encounter with her is awkward and unpleasant, causing him to vomit. The next day at school, all three boys realize they have contracted pubic lice after the events of that night. After trying unsuccessfully to drown them in a public swimming pool, they have to bring their problem to a middle-aged pharmacist who is amused that such young boys have "crabs" and sells them all medication to eradicate the problem. One night, Gary goes to the soda shop and searches for Karen after seeing her bike parked outside. Victor and David reveal that Rick took her off to the high school football field, and Victor says it’s for the purpose of taking her virginity. Gary races to the football field in an attempt to stop Rick and Karen, but is unable to find them. Meanwhile, Rick and Karen have sex for the first time inside the press box. Afterwards, Rick and Karen go to the soda shop, where Gary is sulking by himself. After Rick reveals he had sex with Karen, Gary angrily storms away and drives home. Some time later, Gary notices Rick and Karen arguing in the school library before Karen leaves in distress. When Gary goes to comfort her as she cries by her locker, Karen reveals that she's pregnant. Enraged, Gary confronts Rick back in the library. Rick tells Gary that he's done with Karen and suggests that he wasn't the only guy Karen had sex with. A physical fight ensues, during which Rick accuses Gary of being jealous, and Gary denounces Rick as a lowlife before classmates intervene and break up the fight. Many of the high school students head off on a ski trip during Christmas break, including Rick and his new girlfriend. Gary lies to his parents about going on the trip and instead takes Karen to his late grandmother's house, which has been unoccupied since her death. Gary decides to pay for Karen to have an abortion by selling most of his possessions and borrowing money from his boss. After the abortion, Gary cares for Karen at his grandmother's house while she recovers. The following morning, Karen invites Gary to her 18th birthday party. While packing up their belongings later that night, Karen tells Gary she appreciates everything he has done for her and calls him a "true friend," prompting Gary to confess his love for her. Karen appears to reciprocate, and they kiss. Before Karen's birthday party, Gary scrapes together enough money to buy her an engraved gold locket. When Gary arrives at Karen's birthday party, his hopes for a lasting romance with her are shattered when he walks into the kitchen and finds her making out with Rick. As Karen embraces Rick, she notices Gary, and Rick turns to face him as well. Gary leaves the party without speaking to either of them, taking Karen's gift with him. He drives home alone, heartbroken, with tears streaming down his face.