| Sure "A Romance Of Their Own" is probably the first teen romance movie which features fighting scenes, but it has around the same amount as "Friend (2001)" which in hindsight didn't really have that many. In both movies the fights were memorable but there were not a lot of cans of whoop ass being opened.
This is a love story about a girl torn between her boyfriend and her brother she hasn't seen since she was a child. Crackles with more incestuous heat than Spike Lee filming his sister's love scene in "Mo' Better Blues." The boyfriend is envious of the time she spends with her brother, while the brother doesn't think he is a good match. Who would be a better guy for her, he never says. Feelings get dragged and left hanging. Both guys are from opposing schools or gangs or maybe it is all the same. Tempers and cell phone misunderstandings arise.
After everything, it is surprisingly involving to the very clichéd end. You wonder who she will spend more time with and how it can possibly end after everything it has thrown at you. For that it works. There are some memorable scenes: the kiss in the cafe where a J song suddenly plays and everything is in slow motion, the beginning fight scene in the tunnel where school kids do jump kicks off walls and a rain scene which rivals the scene in “Degrassi TNG” season 2 where Sean waits for Emma under a tree after her mom’s wedding. Just don't expect a whole lot of fighting scenes.
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