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'Sweet Substitute', retitled 'Caressed' in the United States, is a Canadian drama film, directed by Larry Kent and released in 1964."UBC graduate plans his third movie". 'Brandon Sun', August 6, 1965.

The film centres on Tom (Bob Howay), a high school student whose efforts to secure an academic scholarship to university are complicated by his sexual compulsions."Caressed: gutsy view of teen lust". 'The Globe and Mail', June 24, 1967. He is caught in a love triangle between Elaine (Angela Gann), a prim and proper girl who is saving herself for marriage, and Kathy (Carol Pastinsky), a more sexually available girl whom Tom impregnates."Centre Changing Image". 'Ottawa Journal', January 18, 1968.

It was a Canadian Film Award nominee for Best Picture at the 17th Canadian Film Awards in 1965, but did not win.

It was part of a retrospective screening of Kent's films, alongside 'The Bitter Ash', 'When Tomorrow Dies' and 'High', which screened at a number of venues in 2002 and 2003, including Cinematheque Ontario in Toronto, the Pacific Cinmathque in Vancouver and the Canadian Film Institute in Ottawa.Matthew Hays, "Catch up on your Kent". 'The Globe and Mail', February 1, 2003.

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