Two young lovers deceive their parents and take a weekend trip together. The couple can't wait to get to their destination before making love under the trees in a rainstorm.

A cutaway from the steamy scene shows PBS-like documentary footage of sperm and an egg before and after conception. We are subtly told that Stan and Darcy are together For Keeps.

Darcy (Molly Ringwald) and Stan (Randall Batinkoff) continue their idyllic high school lives as newspaper editor and architect-wannabe until a home pregnancy test reveals that Darcy is a mom in the making.

While the latest movie from director John G. Avildsen (Rocky, The Karate Kid) accurately portrays some of the problems associated with teenage pregnancy and demonstrates that "nice girls get pregnant too," we're left questioning the happily-ever-after ending.

Darcy and Stan are forced to divulge their secret at Thanksgiving dinner with both parents present. Darcy is pressed and announces the news.

"I'm pregnant. Please pass the turnips," she says.

Stan's old-fashioned religious parents (Kenneth Mars and Conchata Ferrell) and Darcy's bitter mother (Miriam Flynn) battle over their views on what Darcy should do with her own body.

"Maybe if you had kept your mouth shut and your legs crossed you wouldn't have gotten pregnant," scolds Stan's chauvinistic father.

Darcy decides to have the baby and to continue with her plans of attending college and being a journalist. They get married, continue with high school and part-time jobs, and fix up their apartment in a nice modern yuppie style. All on savings amounting to less than a thousand dollars.

Then reality sets in. With disconnected electricity and telephone and a sick baby, the couple is brought down to earth.

But our lovers remain together, with Stan turning down a full scholarship to Cal Tech to stay with Darcy. Stan avoids telling Darcy about the scholarship, and a jealous schoolmate tells Darcy that she is stealing his life. Altruistic as she is, Darcy secures the scholarship for Stan, divorces him, and his parents' urge him to go to Cal Tech.

Stan will not be content until he and Darcy can go to school together on scholarship and live in freshman married housing. He arranges everything, and the two live happily ever after.

It happens every day, doesn't it?

Not only do writers Tim Kazurinsky and Denise DeClue portray teenage marriage as the romantic choice, but they seem to think that two 17-year-olds can attend college and raise a family if they just hang in there.

We meander through this topically serious film with light-hearted quips and cliches ("I thought you were on the pill").

However simply Darcy's pregnancy is portrayed, director John G. Avildsen does a good job of keeping the film moving. Particularly memorable is the marriage scene, with an unintelligible Reverend Kim (Jack Ong) presiding. Darcy has to interpret Reverend Kim for Stan, and Stan innocently asks, "Are we married yet?"

Even though it is unrealistic that Darcy breaks water at the high school prom, Avildsen does a wonderful job with the rooftop dance scene. Stan dances with Darcy under the moon while she wears her maternity prom dress.