Cindy and Donna

Innocent Cindy Weeks lives with her promiscuous half-sister Donna, their drunkard mother and Donna's lascivious father Ted. Cindy spies on Donna with boys including when a drunken Ted sneaks into Donna's room. While her parents are away, she and her friend Karen goes to the beach and hook up with a couple of guys. She smokes some pot with Karen and they make out. Cindy hooks up with Donna's guy and Donna is thrown out of his house only to be run over by a car.

This is exploitation pure and simple. There is no downplaying that fact. Debbie Osborne is very cute and also has a bit of spark in her. She's slightly more than the vacant stares from most girls of that era. Other than that, this is simple softcore porn.

A teenage virgin, Cindy, is curious about SEX. She watches her older half-sister Donna have SEX with her boyfriend in his car, and then she has SEX with herself afterwards. Meanwhile her father is busy having a lot of SEX with a nubile stripper/prostitute, which doesn't stop him from staggering home in a drunken stupor and having SEX with Donna (his own step-daughter)while Cindy spies on them. Cindy responds to this by going to the beach with her more experienced best friend where they pick up two boys. Her friend has SEX with one of the boys, while Cindy almost has SEX with the other. Later they return back to her house (her parents have gone away to Vegas) where they smoke a joint and end up having lesbian SEX with each other. Meanwhile, sister Donna poses for nude photographs for her boyfriend's friends and has SEX with all three of them. And then finally Cindy at long last has SEX with a guy.

You get the idea that this movie has a lot of sex in it. In fact, it kind of suffers the "curse of too much sex", a problem afflicting almost all hardcore sex films and many softcore films like this: There is so much sex in this movie that it pretty much crowds out anything else of interest (i.e. plot, character development, basic production values). So unless you are a young, heterosexual male who is planning to spend 90 some minutes masturbating, I really can't recommend this. It does have some sicko 70's elements (for instance, the quasi-incest), which will probably offend the sensibilities of some, but for me there is not nearly enough of this since it at least makes the movie less boring. There is also some attempted "comedy relief" by the two drunken parents, but they are mostly just annoying.

The only possible saving grace of this movie is that the four actresses who play the young people (the two sisters, the friend, and the father's mistress) are all very attractive, which isn't always a given in 70's films (70's porn actresses were often pimply and corpulent and generally looked like they'd been picked up in a Times Square vice dragnet). The four girls are obviously all somewhat older than the "teenage" characters they play, but they all have a nubile girl-next-door freshness without the freakishly huge breasts or the unnatural Russ Meyeresque proportions (not to metion the silicone Frankenstein look so common in these kind of movies today). This is still no reason for anybody but a hairy-palmed sex fiend to watch this movie, of course, but it should make it a little more fun at least for those who fall into that category.

Who's the "hooker" dancing naked in the bar near the beginning of the movie, the one the father has an affair with? She's not in the credits on the movie, and not on IMDb either. She is smoking hot, and it's a shame there's no credit of her! We just saw this movie and it's pretty okay, i think the story and morals are about on point for today, although they slightly play up that pot makes girls explore each other. Is that really so bad of a thing? Anyway, the girl dancing who has the romps with the father is definitely a highlight of the film, for 1970, she really has it going on! Anyone know who she is, or can recognize her from any other early, or later, movie? The compilation we bought has 8 films on it, and this is one of them.

Cindy Donna: The story of two horny half-sisters suffering suburban ennui in the 1970s. Virginal,15-year-old Cindy idolizes her older, sexually promiscuous half-sister, Donna. When she spies Donna banging her father (Donna's stepfather), Cindy decides that she's ready to experiment with her body and her sexuality, too. More sex (and tragedy) ensues. The staff that worked on this flick knew it was smarmy when they made it. It's good fun to watch, primarily because Cindy, played by Debbie Osborne, is insanely cute and spends a lot of her time in various stages of undress. The film also has a ridiculous, schmaltzy soundtrack that's half awe-filled, horn-ball sleaze and half after-school special. A highlight of the Drive-In Cult Classics collection.

If all you're looking for out of a movie is sex, sex, and more sex, then you might want to give the Crown International exploitation flick "Cindy and Donna" a try. It's not for people who want a really good, meaty story or lots of character development. However, it *is* for those who want to see a plethora of bare breasts, close-ups of bottoms and crotches, and a number of erotic sex scenes.

Aptly described as the saga of one teenagers' sexual awakening, it stars Debbie Osborne as the Cindy of the title, a 17 year old who doesn't have much interest in sex yet, despite the fact that her horny older sister Donna (Nancy Ison) and equally horny friend Karen (Cheryl Powell) are having it all the time. Their mother Harriet (Sue Allen) is a drunk who's saddled with a husband, Ted (Max Manning) who continuously lusts after a topless dancer named Alice (Alice Friedland). And Donna has a boyfriend, Greg (Tom Benko) who's more than a little sleazy.

While this isn't much good as a film, it's just so damn trashy that it's likely to keep a good many voyeurs watching, despite the rather slow pace. None of the acting is exactly award worthy, but it gets the job done. Osborne is reasonably appealing as Cindy. Manning is an entertaining shameless horndog and Allen chews a little scenery as the drunken mother, whose own attempt to engage in some extramarital activity doesn't go too well. Adding to the enjoyment factor are an assortment of truly cheesy pop tunes and a variable soundtrack ranging from bluegrass to rock sounds.

Overall, some devotees of 70s drive-in cult cinema should be fairly satisfied with this one.

Six out of 10.