Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Aaron1375 This film was rather funny...to watch a politician help a person then proceed to pay for it through the whole movie really makes one wonder what message this film was trying to send? Is it trying to say, one should never show kindness, because in return you will end up a hostage in your own home to political science majors and their friends with cars and anger management issues. Still, the film had some moments, mainly the unintentionally funny moments and you get to see a very attractive young Ann Margaret.The film is about a bland politician who ends up finding a very attractive girl in his daughter's bed. His wife and child are away at the time. The girl begs the man for help and he listens to her story and proceeds to buy the young lady and outfit, takes her to the bus stop and gives her some money to help her out. He later finds out that she has escaped from a juvenile facility and even stabbed one of the employees there. Well he returns home to find out that she has returned and he also finds out that she is kind of insane! She ends up making his life miserable, she invites friends that are a bit psycho themselves and he continually believes what she says and defends her at every turn.The film was featured on MST3K and it made for a very funny episode. It helps that this film was not all that bad, as it contained plenty of fodder for Mike and the bots. It was also kind of good in a way, which always makes for the more entertaining episodes. Listening to their riffs as the politician keeps getting deeper and deeper into trouble was funny, but at the same time you kept wondering how it was going to end as well. Could he possibly get out of this situation unscathed? So while it was not an award winning movie by an means, it was entertaining in its own way. And Ann Margaret was hot, hot, HOT...back then.

rajah524-3 KWAW may be stuck in the ill-paced cage of a '60s TV melodrama, but the source material from pulp author Wade Miller is downright Diana Russell, Ellen Bass, Laura Davis, Andrew Vachss and Judith Lewis Herman in 1985. Which is to say, sexually abused hottie teener goes manipulative, man-hating borderline barracuda."Borderline" is the operative word here, yet it was almost unknown back in '64. And it wasn't until the dawn of the feminist movement in psychotherapy in the late '70s or so that =anybody= much connected the sort of character Ann's playing here to serial incest and/or molestation.At the time, in fact, most of the so-called "authorities" on juvenile delinquency thought runaway girls were just "evil." That most of them =were= what Jody claims to be was rarely given much credence in the '60s. And it was well into the '80s before most psychotherapists understood that "borderline personality disorder" was the expectable result.Miller has it down. Borderlines =are= little girls in adult bodies who fear... and rage... and need... and hate... and seduce... and abuse. And flip back and forth just as quickly as their emotional state of the moment demands. "Jody" may seem to be a little "cardboard" in her duplicity here, but hysteric borderlines often are. (Miller's "Jody" seems to be built on the most significant traits of the borderline personality described in the first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual back in 1952.) Too bad the film wasn't directed by Stanley Kubrick who did a better job with a better book about the same topic two years earlier. That one was called "Lolita."

drystyx Usually a good movie needs to take believable characters into an unbelievable situation. This film is slightly different. In true cult style, it crosses barriers. The situation is real, and lived out every day. It about a man who tries to do the right thing, and live by a code, but is taken advantage of by people who are intent on taking advantage of him just for the thrill of it.Unfortunately, that describes most of what America has become since the making of this movie. The man who is taken advantage of is too much of an American aristocrat to really be in danger. As shown in the film, he has many friends, and many assets, and he will not be soiled in the end.By this, the film shows that had the man not been so well regarded and a part of the "establishment", he would have been in dire straits.And it is true, that America has become a place where vicious thugs (from wealthy families), act out aggressions and seek thrills of hurting others, and creating terrifying situations , not out of a need for survival or paying the rent, but just out of a sick desire.

sol1218 ****SPOILERS**** Weird and unbelievable movie, well after the Bill Clinton/Monica Walinsky affair I'm willing to believe anything, about an up and coming California politician David Stratton, John Forsythe. Stratton got the state senate seat in his sights but ends up getting blackmailed kidnapped beaten and almost killed by a young women, and her oddball friends. Stratton found the bunch sleeping in his daughters bedroom one morning when he came back from a political dinner, both his wife and daughter were on vacation.The young women Jody, Ann-Margret, gives David a sob story about her being a runaway from a broken home and the jerk falls for it. I really think that Stratton fell for Jody's gorgeous VA VA VOOM body more then anything else. The guy may be a bit foolish and naive but he's not blind. David goes as far as going out to the store to get Jody a new set of clothes but as David is away Jody calls her friends to come over to David's place and party. It turns out that Jody isn't the sweet and innocent fawn that she claimed to be but a hardened juvenile delinquent who just escaped from a home for uncontrollable young girls. That after she tried to burn the place down and stabbed an attendant who tried to stop her, wild and crazy girl that Jody is. Crashing David's house that night Jody's friends Ron Buck & Midge, Peter Brown Skip Ward & Diane Sayer hold David hostage as they drink and drug themselves into such a wild frenzy that Midge later leaves them in terror. Ron in what had to be a drug induced hallucination tells Buck to slash him with a razor. It's his way of showing that his will-power can stop the pain and bleeding from the wound! Instead he ends up being in danger of bleeding to death. Getting David to drive the three across the border to a doctor that they know in Mexico to treat Ron they go on a drug and drinking binge in Tijuana. It gets so out of hand that even Jody can't take it anymore and gives David back his car keys to take her back across the border to California. Judy then plans to give herself up to the police and face the music. David driving with Jody to California is then attacked on the highway by Buck & Ron who drive David them off the road but the two are so stoned and drunk that they lose control of their car and go crashing off a cliff into flames and to their deaths. With Jody thrown clear from David's car and smashing her skull killing herself, only David survived the double car crash. The police covered up David's involvement with the three dead felons and thus saved his reputation his marriage and political career. David laying in his hospital bed with his head and ribs and bones broken can now recover and get back to the normal world that he lived in. Thats before Jody walked, or slept, into his life with nobody but himself and the police knowing for better or worse what happened. Don't you just love those Hollywood happy endings.