So there's this literal hillbilly woman (and I say literal because she lives in the Hills in what can only be described as a glorified Shack with a car that you have to start up by hand cranking it from the front as if it's the turn of the 20th century.)
She's taking one of her to hillbilly delinquent daughters to get married for some reason. We're never given a good reason as to why the girls getting married I guess it's implied that she's interested in this guy and this little Community is immensely conservative so the only way she's getting any is by being married?
I'm not entirely sure.
It sounds kind of deplorable to talk about that these people are just kind of meat socks for sex but the entire film is a little raunchy from that point of you to begin with.
Anyways the mother decides to start the wedding right towards the end because she realises that she doesn't want her daughters to live some miserable life in the middle of nowhere America Consulting themselves to these despicable hillbilly Folk*.
From that point on it's just a run against time. The mother and her two daughters wants to get out to California so she can purchase a beachfront property and maybe start up some small business.
You know the typical American Dream idea.
But as the movie goes on their departure into criminal Enterprises just grows and grows until they finally get to the point where they can't settle down anywhere because they're wanted for theft, bootlegging, grand larceny, murder, kidnapping and a few other things.
It's a matter of escalation in crime and losing their morality.
I really like how indifferent this movie is towards everything. You keep expecting there to be some drawn-out dramatic moment revolving around the mother and her daughters were these guys they meet up with from time to time especially because they all sleep around with these respected fellows. But nothing comes of it. It's just a movie that wants to set up bank robbing scenes and a couple of heist.
A fair chunk of the movie is just an excuse for our three main leads to get naked from time to time. Which seems a bit unsettling given that two of them are supposedly under age or maybe just turning 18 at best. I looked into the actual actresses age, they'er over 18 when this film was made so that's a comforting thing. And you have to be concerned about that in the seventies because that wasn't always the case.
In a way it's just kind of nice to watch a movie that has such a broad definition of indifference. There's no care about anything. You're not even all that convinced to that they really want to get away with their crimes.
Overall it's a semi enjoyable Heist flick that could have done with either shortening it's run time.
It would have almost benefited from being a TV pilot instead of a movie. There's no way in hell that could have happened.
* I'd say that this movie was trying to belittle a certain group of people but in reality everyone in this film is depicted as a no good delinquent lowlife who either wants to screw you out of your money, screw your body or maybe just kill you.
It's hard to say but it's nothing but misery.
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