Making It is a 1971 comedy-drama film directed by John Erman and written by Peter Bart and James Leigh.

[2] Adapted from Leigh's 1965 novel What Can You Do?, the film follows several months in the life of an intelligent, precocious 17-year-old high school student who fancies himself a smooth Lothario.

[3] Phil Fuller (Tabori) is a 17-year-old high school student who lives in a small apartment with his young single mother (Joyce Van Patten).

He beds the neglected wife (Mason) of the high school basketball coach by feigning being a sexually pent up virgin.

In the Chicago Sun-Times, film critic Roger Ebert wrote:Making It is a curiously unfinished movie.

And just when we're nodding in agreement, the movie gets embarrassed and changes the subject, and we're watching a cheap comedy situation or a sight gag.