Crown International Forever.
Directed by Robert Anderson* (Cindy and Donna), who wrote this with Terry Anderson and Dave Dixon, this movie starts off with high school senior Mindy Evans (Patricia Wymer, The Babysitter) dumping her boyfriend Bill (Gary Rist, who went on to compose the music for Lifepod) and hooking up with very married photographer and teacher Jack (Steven Stewart). He hasn't had sex in, well, maybe years and as soon as his wife heads out of town, he gets with the much younger girl and of course, knocks her up. So she does the sensible thing and goes on a road trip with her best friend Sandy (Marly Holiday).
An early movie for Bruno Kirby and Dennis Christopher, this has the Crown house style of being a movie where nothing seems to happen for a long stretch of time. Usually that ennui is punctuated with blasts of violence or nudity, but this is a pretty friendly movie for them.
Instead, it has dune buggies, a drugged out biker gang, a hippie enclave and the requisite teenage trappings of 1971. It also has Terri Johnson, who was pretty busy in the early 70s. She's a shower girl here, but shows up licking her lips during a Black Mass in Her Odd Tastes, a witch in Blood Sabbath, some adult loops and as an Amazon in Flesh Gordon. There's also Kathy Hilton (If You Don't Stop It... You'll Go Blind!!!, Invasion of the Bee Girls, The Toy Box and also a witch in Blood Sabbath).
I enjoyed this, even when it was just long stretches of motorcycle chases or a gang beating up a hippie kid. It's the small moments that make me happy and even the slowest and dumbest Crown International movie makes me happier than anything that's going to be released this year.
*Not the Oscar winner, despite what Wikipedia tells you.
Directed by Robert Anderson* (Cindy and Donna), who wrote this with Terry Anderson and Dave Dixon, this movie starts off with high school senior Mindy Evans (Patricia Wymer, The Babysitter) dumping her boyfriend Bill (Gary Rist, who went on to compose the music for Lifepod) and hooking up with very married photographer and teacher Jack (Steven Stewart). He hasn't had sex in, well, maybe years and as soon as his wife heads out of town, he gets with the much younger girl and of course, knocks her up. So she does the sensible thing and goes on a road trip with her best friend Sandy (Marly Holiday).
An early movie for Bruno Kirby and Dennis Christopher, this has the Crown house style of being a movie where nothing seems to happen for a long stretch of time. Usually that ennui is punctuated with blasts of violence or nudity, but this is a pretty friendly movie for them.
Instead, it has dune buggies, a drugged out biker gang, a hippie enclave and the requisite teenage trappings of 1971. It also has Terri Johnson, who was pretty busy in the early 70s. She's a shower girl here, but shows up licking her lips during a Black Mass in Her Odd Tastes, a witch in Blood Sabbath, some adult loops and as an Amazon in Flesh Gordon. There's also Kathy Hilton (If You Don't Stop It... You'll Go Blind!!!, Invasion of the Bee Girls, The Toy Box and also a witch in Blood Sabbath).
I enjoyed this, even when it was just long stretches of motorcycle chases or a gang beating up a hippie kid. It's the small moments that make me happy and even the slowest and dumbest Crown International movie makes me happier than anything that's going to be released this year.
*Not the Oscar winner, despite what Wikipedia tells you.