Jeremy is a 1973 American romantic-drama film starring Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor as two high school students who share a tentative month-long romance.

[6] Jeremy Jones (Benson) is a shy, bespectacled, Jewish fifteen-year-old living in a New York City apartment with his parents, who are busy with their own pursuits and leave him mostly on his own.

His other interests include reading poetry, playing chess and basketball, and following horse racing, where he can consistently pick winners, though he never places a bet himself.

At school, he enters an empty classroom looking for chalk, sees a girl (O'Connor) inside practicing ballet, and is instantly smitten with her beauty.

Susan and Jeremy enjoy each other's company and they begin walking to school together every day, visiting places such as the park and racetrack, and generally spending a lot of time together for the next three weeks.

He shared a pre-publication draft with his friend Arthur Barron, who was then a screenwriting instructor at Columbia University and a staff writer and producer of documentaries at NBC.

[8] (Minahan's novel was meanwhile published as a Bantam paperback[9] and widely distributed in the U.S. via Scholastic Book Services, coinciding with the holiday 1973 general release of the film.

"[11] Writing in The New York Times, Rosalyn Drexler called the film "as honest and sympathetic a story about young love as I've ever seen," adding, "Robby Benson is funny, enthustiastic, and intelligent; able to play scenes as if they were entirely spontaneous.

"[17] Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times called it "a well-made film with a documentary-like feeling for upper Manhattan ... but you can be rendered uneasy by the mixture in 'Jeremy' of a notably well observed physical reality and an uncommonly romanticized make-believe.

"[18] Tom Shales of The Washington Post wrote that "even if one wants to believe this happy vision and put oneself at the movie's mercy, the improbable and uneventful screenplay, also credited to Barron, makes that difficult.

According to Gilmartin, the appeal of the film to the love-shy men in his study was due to O'Connor's physical appearance and the love-shyness of the title character as played by Benson.