Hothead

Should you decide to stream this online from Amazon, know that --as the other reviewer alluded--the synopsis was obviously written by someone who only sat through the first five minutes of this film. The correct story is simply this: a young man in his late teens, angry at the world because his father long ago abandoned his late mother, picks up a drifter on the way to the beach with two friends.

The decent looking but hardly gorgeous prostituted woman described in the misleading synopsis has one pointless scene. The drifter, for someone who spends his first scene waking up in a junkyard, is unrealistically well-spoken, dressed, and groomed. Heh, who wouldn't pick him up? This could have been an interesting character study, but the poster for the film and background music would have you believe it's an exploitation flick. Turns out it's quite innocuous--a lot of build up to what really is just a day at the beach for people with, um, issues.

There may be some cult interest in this due to 1.) the scene at the gym with many scantily short-shorted shirtless men, and 2.) the presence of Barbara Joyce as the teenage girl who would like to be fast and loose, but is really just kind of a goofball. Before her 2010 death, Ms. Joyce's more infamous contribution to pop culture was as the first (and thus far only) person to portray in live action the DC comics superheroine The Huntress, in two one- hour so-bad-they're-good television specials known as Legends of the Superheroes. This specials aired two decades after Hothead was filmed (the IMDb date goes by release, but the copyright shown on screen is 1958, when she was 17).

Bottom line: Slightly better than I thought it would be, only because I thought I wouldn't even be able to sit through it.