Mother's Day

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(RAPE)* *Lots of Strong Language* *Sexual Situations* *Nudity* *Very Gory*</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1980/Color/98 Min./Virgin Vision Ltd. & Saga Film A.B. & Mother's Day Co./Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.............Charles Kaufman </B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Charles Kaufman & Warren Leight</B></div> <div> <B>Producers........Michael Kravitz & Charles Kaufman</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Alexander Beck</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects & Make-up by Josie Caruso & Rob E. Holland</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Trina..............Tiana Pierce</B></div> <div> <B>Abbey............Nancy Henderickson</B></div> <div> <B>Jackie............Deborah Luce</B></div> <div> <B>Mother............Rose Ross</B></div> <div> <B>Ike..................Holden McGuire</B></div> <div> <B>Addley............Billy Ray McQuade</B></div> <div> <B>Ernie...............Robert Collins</B></div> <div> <B>The "Dobber"..Karl Sandys</B></div> <div> <B>Terry...............Marsella Davidson</B></div> <div> <B>Ted.................Kevin Lowe</B></div> <div> <B>Storekeeper...Scott Lucas</B></div> <div> <B>Doorman........Ed Battle</B></div> <div> <B>Tex.................Robert Carnegie</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: </B><B>WARNING! Portrayal of rape and torture. </B><B>This is</B><B> a true redneck movie in that the theme of the city-folks versus woods-folks is touched upon several times by both sides. Ike indignantly orders the women, "We're citified. Look around." Mother also insists to her hitch-hikers that despite her life in the woods, she's well informed through television. The family is citified in the worst sense, one a punk and the other a late adherent to disco culture, mother a member of a pop-psychology televangelist style inspirational speaker. The "strong language" consists primarily of an agressive usage of bitch, that is stronger in this context than usual. Rose Ross is memorable as mother as are Holden McGuire as the ugly and childishly simple Ike and Billy Ray McQuade as the psycho idiot. The Queenie problematic is puzzling. The entire Queenie story line seems to be one the film successfully could have survived without and the one surprise it does deliver leaves these viewers wondering if it doesn't detract from the effect the womens' final assault had made so well. It may be an attempt to mythologize the New Jersey Devil legend while pointing out that people in the tri-state area are afraid of the Deep Barons woods and whatever all might be sneaking aroung out there. It also seems odd that this film has been singled out as exemplary for its brain dead violence and victimization of women, as obvious and heavy handed as these elements are. With the exception of the Queenie episode, this is more an ultra violent "Thelma and Louise" with a more optimistic and emancipatory message: Don't mess with the rat pack. The portrayals of the older generation of women in the two mothers and Queenie episode would also seem to indicate that in addition to the current generation of men, an older generation of women are also obstacles to the three young women. That "men" Ike and Addley live in the woods and are defeated on their "own" turf, is also allegorically significant for the emancipation theme. Don't get the wrong impression, political correctness prudes will despise this film.</B></div> <div> <B>The dorm scenes at Wolfbreath College are filmed in the Weinstein dorm at NYU. It seems odd that Tommy James and the Shondells' upbeat "I think we're alone now" is the only song in this wierd film.</B></div> <div> <B>Interesting line: "What are you afraid of? Being jumped by a bunch of wild Puerto Rican chickens?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: As Mother graduates from a love seminar given by the inspirational speaker Ernie G., all the graduates turn to each other, hug, and announce, "Thank you for sharing with me. I love you." Two other graduates who are city=folk, punk Charlie and his liar girlfriend, need a ride to the busstop and mother obliges. As Charlie fashions a garrot in the back seat, Mother's car suddenly breaks down and she climbs out to fix it. Suddenly Charlie's head is chopped off with a machete, and Mother's dedicated sons Ike (the large one) and Addley brutally beat and sexually assault the woman until Mother intervenes. Mother kisses the girl on the lips, repeats the motto of the seminar, and garrots her victim. Meanwhile, three young women who were college roommates at Wolfbreath College in 1970, are unhappily going about their lives when Trina, now a Beverly Hills jet-setter, and Jackie, trapped in a miserable relationship with cocaine-artist Ted, receive instructions to meet Abbey, who cares for her evil mother at home. Every year, one of the girls plans a mystery trip for the other two (within the U.S.). Jackie fills her backpack and heads off in her Volare to pick up her two friends. From Rexburg, New Jersey, they drive off to Deep Barons Wilderness area in New Jersey, Abbey and Trina with bags over their heads for suprise effect. When they stop for beer and snacks, the masked girls unintentionally sack the country store and the crazy hick storekeeper fires them a horror-movie prophecy,"You'll get what you deserve in them deep pines you lezbeens! You won't be causin' nobody no trouble no more!" Deep in the woods, the women mark their path with empty beer cans and then get stoned around the campfire and reminisce. Jackie goes to relieve herself and returns with a fake knife in her back to get things off on the wrong foot. As the girls reminisce about how they humiliated obnoxious jock Brad Dobson, who wanted to add Jackie to his list of conquests, it becomes clear that Abbey and above all Trina have a tradition of avenging Jackie's misuse at the hands of men. The group's name and motto are announced in this context, "Don't mess with the ratpack!" Abbey too is a victim. Her mother is cruel and domineering, using her "sick woman" status to manipulate and torture her into catering to her every demand. Trina alone has achieved independence and security. As the girls frolic half nude in the lake, Ike and Addley look on, smiling in approval. At bed time, Abbey thanks the others for being her friends before Ike and Addley sweep in and drag the campers off in their sleeping bags. The women are presented to a beaming momma then tied to wheight-lifting equipment on the second floor, kissed and beaten. Trina, predictably, is the only one to put up a fight. The boys lead Jackie out to the yard on a leash and sit her on a park bench. Addley explains that she is to read a magazine as if she were sitting in a park then he pretends to walk a dog while Ike plays garbage man. They suddenly begin to brutally beat her until Mother blows a whistle to chastize the boys when Jackie gets a hand free. Mother insists that their performance be error-free and that they become "the best". She suggests that they next play "Shirley Temple" although the boys would rather "do the Kojak".  Jackie is dressed in a girl's skirt and given a teddy bear while Ike gets the camera. Jackie is ordered to walk back and forth like a little girl then Addley tackles her, rips off her clothes and rapes her. As he repeated ly smashes her across the face screaming "Bitch!", Mother beams and Ike takes instant photos. At the session's end, Mother warns the boys to lock up good, "Queenie's out there!" The next morning, the BigBird alarm clock sounds and the boys taunt eacjh other while brushing their teeth with beer: Addley "Punk sucks!" Ike "Disco's stupid!" The boys are allowed to go feed the other two girls berfore reporting tp mother for their exercises which consist of commando drills and calestenics.  Mother takes notes and monitors a check list on a clip board. While Mother proudly watches the boys fight, Abby lowers Trina out the window in her sleeping bag then Trina reenters the house freeing Abbey from their proison and they set off in search of Jackie. After finding Charlie's head in a closet with the body of his girlfriend, they locate Jackie near dead huddled in a drawer. They carry her deep into the woods and hide her under leaves and Trina makes a run for the Volare. Trina discovers the Volare disabled, a fake police car arrives, and Officer Ike attempts to apprehend her. Trina knees Ike in the groin and he fires shots as she disappears into the woods. As Abbey hears the shots, Jackie dies. Back at the house, Addley hypothesizes that Mother only pretends her evil sister still roams the woods to keep the boys around. Their grandmother had assured the boys that she personally had shot Queenie after Queenie had broken their mother's neck while she lay in her crib, and gave them Queenies chopped off ear to prove it. Addley vows never to leave his mother. Ike's troubles in the woods continue while the women regroup, carrying Jackie's body back to Mama's house so that her corpse can witness their revenge. Defiatluy the girls vow "Rat pack forever!". Mother and Addley give Ike the cold sholder for losing two city girls in the woods. Ike vows to make his mother proud and kill the two survivors "real good". As Ike makes up with Ma and Addley is in the back room, the girls begin their assault in which the rat pack tests its motto and Abbey processes some things with her own mother at the expense of Mother.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>