Anti-drug drama from Dwain Esper, the auteur of Maniac, Sex Madness and Reefer Madness. So there are lots of scenes where young people puff on cigarettes at parties, causing them to laugh wildly, kiss passionately, roll around on the floor and jitterbug, quote Shakespeare and go skinny dipping. You know, people laugh at these films – but I’ve seen marijuana actually make people do this stuff. The skinny dipping scene is quite raunchy – all the girls do it and you see their bare arses and everything.
All this fun must inevitably be punished and it is. One of the girls drowned, another gets pregnant then turns to crime. This film is a bit easier to follow than Reefer Madness as it focuses more on one character – Burma, who gets knocked up, gives up the baby and becomes a drug dealer. Burma’s a decent character with an understandable motivation (mum preferred her sister). Indeed, after the great skinny dipping scene it turns into a kind of standard tough woman melodrama with Burma running around with a bad crowd but discovering a mother’s love at the end. There is a fun scene where Burma shakes down a druggie client (a middle aged woman) but the rest of the second half is fairly conventional. And correct me if I’m wrong, but does she die at the end of the film of a marijuana overdose?
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