The year is 1965. The place: Albuquerque, New Mexico. Rudy (Balthazar Getty) is the new kid in town who befriends Kit (Bruce Ramsay), a "world-class seducer" who has his own bachelor pad in the cheap motel his family owns. Kit is very vain, wearing makeup and practicing looks and lines in the mirror in his quest for "phony perfection" to seduce women.

One of his conquests is Donna (Meredith Salenger), who he seduces in his car using his usual trickery of eliciting sympathy via a fake sob story. Kit takes Donna out on a date and gives her a ring which he claims is very expensive. He asks her to be his wife so they can share everything…and for starters can he have her babysitting money so he can make a record… Soon afterward, while Kit is performing a song at a student hangout, Donna sees that Martha (Sara Gilbert), a girl who is in love with Kit and shares a bond with him, also has the exact same ring. Extremely hurt, Donna furiously storms off and angrily tosses the ring at him.

Kit is mesmerized by Kristen (Natasha Gregson Wagner), a free spirited girl he sees at the pool. She is a slutty delinquent who is the black sheep of a well-to-do family. They have an intensely heated relationship that satisfies her need to be loved and his physical needs. He says he loves her and she say she loves him but it isn't long before she becomes more controlling of him and he tires of being tied to one woman.

Meanwhile, Rudy asks a distraught Donna out on a miniature golfing date. He falls for her and dreams of marrying her. Kristen doesn't like Rudy and tells Donna he forces girls to have anal sex. On their next date, Donna is a bit skittish. When Rudy tries to put his arm around Donna, she throws a milkshake in his face, yelling, "you pervert!" Even a concocted plan of Kit's, in which Rudy supposedly fought for Donna's honor, only elicits a response of "Get him away from me!" from Donna.

To prove his love for Kristen, Kit tells her of a girl he murdered in the desert (witnessed by Martha) and shows her the burial spot. She immediately becomes even more controlling, forcing him to do anything she wants or else she will expose him. Rudy, meanwhile, keeps vigil in front of Donna's house because, he decides, if he can't go out with her, no one will. He stays even when Donna tells him to leave because she doesn't like him.

When Kristen goes on a family trip, Kit goes wild and parties. He then finds out Martha is pregnant with his child and then Kristen returns to tell him that she is dumping him for a guy in San Francisco she met and had sex with. Kit goes berserk and kills Kristen, dumping her body in the desert. He tells Rudy, who helps bury her. Rudy's conscience eats away at him and he tells the police. Kit is arrested.

This film suffers from a meandering plot, which is not focused, and poor acting by the lead actor, Bruce Ramsey, who seems to be mugging too much and generally overacting to unintentional comic effect. At times he reminded me of Saturday Night Live's Mike Myers doing Wayne's World faces. And this is definitely not Natasha Gregson Wagner's finest acting moment either. Sara Gilbert as Martha is wonderful but completely wasted. So is Deborah Harry as Donna's mother.

Meredith is superb in her role. She looks stunning in her 60s hairdo and is paraded in a variety of 60s dresses and outfits that compliment her figure, including a wedding dress. The dress she wears on her golf course date must be seen to be appreciated! She does a great job of acting gullible and sympathetic to Kit's sob story as he seduces her. She stares at him so dreamily as he is on stage - that's her man up there. But she equally does a fantastic job of conveying the combined hurt and anger on discovering the ring is just a scam. Her shock at hearing the anal sex rumor and the uneasiness she displays as she goes on her date with Rudy afterwards is very well played. Her concern and exasperation over Rudy's vigil in front of her house - which later turns to anger - is great. Finally, in a couple scenes Meredith is shown smoking a cigarette, giving her a little "bad girl" edge. She smokes cigarettes like the glamour babes of the golden years of Hollywood, making smoking look very sexy.