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 in the same 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. 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. One morning, in an effort to win her over, Gary finds Karen’s house and deflates her bike tires in order to get closer to her and invites her to ride to school with him. During and after the ride, he tries to woo her, to no avail. That evening, Gary attends a party at David's house and is devastated to find Karen with Rick. He tries to entice her away from his friend, failing again. Rose is at the party and tries to dance with Gary and woo him over, but it’s also no good. He becomes drunk and makes a fool of himself. David tells Gary to go home and sleep it off, but when he arrives, 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 in search of Karen. (He sees her bike parked outside.) Victor and David reveal that Rick took her off somewhere, and Victor says it’s for the purpose of taking her virginity. Gary races out of there to try to stop it, but he’s too late. Rick and Karen have sex for the first time under the bleachers at the high school football field. Afterwards, Rick and Karen meet up with Gary. After Rick reveals what they did, Gary angrily storms away and drives home. Eventually, after Karen and Rick have sex, she becomes pregnant, and he dumps her in the school library. Gary sees Karen crying by her locker and finds out what happened. Enraged, Gary confronts Rick, and a physical fight ensues, during which Rick suggests that he was not the only guy with whom Karen has had sex. Rick calls Gary jealous, and Gary denounces Rick as a lowlife before classmates in the library stop the fight. The gang goes away for a ski trip for Christmas break. During that time, Gary lies to his parents about going but stays behind and decides to help Karen pay for an abortion by selling most of his possessions and borrowing money from his boss. After the abortion, Gary and Karen spend the remainder of the weekend alone together in Gary's grandmother's house, which has been abandoned for a bit after her death. While nursing Karen back to health, Gary says that he loves her. Karen appears to reciprocate, and they kiss. Karen invites Gary to her 18th birthday party the following week after the gang returns from the trip. Gary scrapes up more dollars and buys Karen an engraved gold locket for her birthday. When Gary arrives at Karen's birthday party, his dreams of a lasting romance with her are shattered when he walks in on her making out with Rick. They look up as Gary enters; his smile disappears, and no one speaks. Gary leaves the party without talking to either of them, taking Karen's gift. He drives home alone, discouraged and completely heartbroken, with tears streaming down his face. ==Cast==