Going All the Way (1997)

Director: Mark Pellington

Writer: Dan Wakefield, based on his novel

Stars: Jeremy Davies, Ben Affleck, Amy Locane, Rose McGowan, Rachel Weisz, John Lordan, Robert Swan, Jill Clayburgh, Lesley Ann Warren

Sonny Burns (Jeremy Davies) and Gunnar Casselman (Ben Affleck) are two young men who strike up an acquaintance on their way home from the war in Korea. 

As students at the same high school, Sonny, the neurotic introvert, and Gunnar, the Golden Boy athlete, moved in entirely different circles. 

Now, following the life-changing experience of the war, this odd couple is able to provide much needed support for each other as they resist sliding back into the same old routine. 

Unlike Gunnar's hard-drinking, partying high school buddies, Sonny takes Gunnar's newly found, "inner-directed" (as he calls it), philosophical side seriously.

 

Gunnar provides vital support and advice as Sonny tries to overcome the crippling neuroses that make it so difficult for him to relate to the opposite sex and break away from his controlling parents. 

The entire cast is excellent, but Davies really excels as the imploding, desperate Sonny.