When I was 20, my girlfriend at the time, and I made the mistake of going to the movies to see this picture.
Just recently, it came up on TCM, and I decided to record it to show parts of it to my wife. What possessed me at the age of 66, to punish myself again; I'll never know.
First, the entire movie is filmed in (as I dubbed it in 1974), Noxzema-vision. The filters are appropriate however because this is such a muddy mess of a movie.
The gist of this depressing train wreck, follows the exploits of Muffy, an inward virgin attending a girls prep school who loses her virginity to an unwilling bespectacled nerd. After that 5 seconds was thankfully over, Muffy of course turns up pregnant. With the help of the nerd & girlfriend, she gets a backstreet abortion. Dr. Hackenbush gives her a DNC, (which is appropriate since this entire movie was a uteral scraping). It goes wrong and the coat-hanger wielding wannabe Doc gives Muff some pain pills to cover it up. Next, Muffy's muff is hemorrhaging and she dies; (although after witnessing the act that led to her pregnancy, it would've been reasonable to conclude that she had died sometime earlier).
I'm not sure if the writers and producers were trying to produce an anti pre-marital sex or antiabortion movie. It doesn't matter. This joyless flick is so depressing it makes Sophie's Choice look like a musical.
Gave it 3 stars because it does (unfortunately), hold one's attention.
Bob R.
Just recently, it came up on TCM, and I decided to record it to show parts of it to my wife. What possessed me at the age of 66, to punish myself again; I'll never know.
First, the entire movie is filmed in (as I dubbed it in 1974), Noxzema-vision. The filters are appropriate however because this is such a muddy mess of a movie.
The gist of this depressing train wreck, follows the exploits of Muffy, an inward virgin attending a girls prep school who loses her virginity to an unwilling bespectacled nerd. After that 5 seconds was thankfully over, Muffy of course turns up pregnant. With the help of the nerd & girlfriend, she gets a backstreet abortion. Dr. Hackenbush gives her a DNC, (which is appropriate since this entire movie was a uteral scraping). It goes wrong and the coat-hanger wielding wannabe Doc gives Muff some pain pills to cover it up. Next, Muffy's muff is hemorrhaging and she dies; (although after witnessing the act that led to her pregnancy, it would've been reasonable to conclude that she had died sometime earlier).
I'm not sure if the writers and producers were trying to produce an anti pre-marital sex or antiabortion movie. It doesn't matter. This joyless flick is so depressing it makes Sophie's Choice look like a musical.
Gave it 3 stars because it does (unfortunately), hold one's attention.
Bob R.