Sixteen

Well, I have never seen this movie, but I know something about it as well. It was filmed on my family's property in South Georgia. My cousin was held by the lady that played the mother in the movie. My mom told me my great grandparents were not happy when they heard that there were nude scenes being shot in the creek and it was between a "brother and sister." The creek and pond or whatever was/is our land. My aunt bought this movie to see if you could see my grandfather's mill house, but I don't think she was successful. It is really neat that my family was part of this movie, but it is sad that the movie was so bad and so trashy. My family is nothing like the family depicted in the movie and it really upset them that the movie portrayed people from the South in that manner. I just wanted to add my two cents in.

Poor Mercedes McCambridge. She must have been starving to make this movie. I see some reviewers have "trashy"appearing to be one of a criticism that makes a movie bad for them. Trash is not necessarily bad. Terrible writing, acting, and directing make a movie bad. All three are here. I was watching as I was doing other stuff so I'm sure if I had sat down to watch a movie I would have left it. (Watched on Prime.) if ever a movie deserved a 1, this is it. If my momma was in it I would give the same rating.

I watched trailer for this and decided it couldn't be as bad as it appeared. Wrong. This is listed as "drama" I guess because there is no"waste if time" category. I may have seen this (sort of) film in a double feature at a drive-in on a date. That's because the story, the dialogue and the acting were so bad that you didn't miss anything if you only concentrated on your date. There are a ton of filler scenes, and overly long reaction shots of mostly the entire cast just staring at each other instead of saying anything. The ending is just as stupid as the rest of the film. Weren't there statutory rape laws back in the 70s?

This here is a low budget gem. I won't spoil the story,you'll have to watch it ! Let's just say a sweetly naive,very poor country family go to the state fair and things get rocky. Funny in oh-so-many ways,my words cannot do it justice. The music ranges from cringeworthy to bad to pretty darn good,there is quite a dichotomy and range in the music. You just gotta see it !

Meagerly funded and pretty trashy tale involving a dirt-poor backwoods couple coming unanticipatedly into a substantial amount of cash. They subsequently take their three kids to the state fair, where the two elder children(a boy and girl in their teens with an implied incestuous relationship)are corrupted by some shifty carnival folks. The girl is coerced into sex with a daredevil motorcycle rider(in front of an audience), and the boy becomes prey to a busty gold-digging stage dancer.

A sub-par and highly forgettable film which might be just quirky enough to interest a few fans of regional 70s exploitation cinema. Brief nudity and soft sex scenes may be missing from some prints.

Mercedes McCambridge, appearing rather uneasy here, gets a nomination for the "any old thing for a paycheck" Carradine Award. I imagine she was hard-up for fifty bucks when she signed on for this one. 4/10.