No One Speaks the Same Language: The Last American Virgin

I made a reference about oranges appearing out of nowhere in the description of the theme this month, and you might be wondering what the hell I was talking about. Well, I was talking about The Last American Virgin.

We've never seen this film, but in Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films someone mentions this movie. Apparently there's a character who pays for his girlfriend's abortion and then bringing her a bag of oranges and a Christmas tree as some sort of consolation gift. The person recounting that scene guessed the oranges' significance lied in some Palestinian tradition that didn't bear significance in our culture, but it could have just as easily been director Boaz Davidson's interpretation of American Christmas traditions. We might never know why (no one in Electric Boogaloo says definitively, and I can't find any answers on the interwebs) but that's part of the charm that comes from making art through these kinds of filters; sometimes stuff happens that captures the audiences' imagination, and you'll never know if it was intentionally provocative.