Fantastic!

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

"Cindy Weeks" (Debbie Osborne) and "Donna Weeks" (Nancy Ison) are half-sisters living together with their alcoholic parents. "Ted Weeks" (Max Manning) is Cindy's father who stays out late getting drunk and sleeping around with younger women. "Harriet" (Sue Allen), the mother of both Cindy and Donna, complains about everything while getting completely drunk as well. Needless to say, neither Cindy nor Donna have role models worth emulating and their values suffer as a result. Donna spends most of her time with her boyfriend, "Greg" (Tom Benko) smoking pot and having sex. Cindy happens to see them one night and is revolted by it. Not long afterward she catches Ted coming home extremely drunk and having sex with Donna as well. Noticing that Donna doesn't seem too perturbed about it the next morning, Cindy decides to smoke pot with her best-friend "Karen" (Cheryl Powell). One thing leads to another and soon Cindy starts becoming more interested in sex and turns to Karen, who happens to be sexually liberated, for advice. Anyway, I bought this in a 2-set DVD under the title of "Drive-In Cult Classics" which features 8 little-known films made specifically for a period in time when the drive-ins were in desperate shape. Although they were quite popular in the 50's, drive-ins began to steadily recede through the 60's and reached a critical time in the 70's. One of the reasons for this was due to the fact that drive-ins operated only at night and during the summer. As a result they had a limited number of times they could show a movie. Indoor theaters, on the other hand, could show a movie 5 or 6 times a day. So the major studios began to send their first-run films to indoor theaters since it was more profitable. That left the drive-ins having to settle for B-movies and eventually X-rated films. This particular film is an example. While it isn't quite X-rated, it does have quite a few scenes featuring nudity and sex. Surprisingly, although a movie of this sort usually doesn't have any actors worth mentioning, I thought both Debbie Osborne and Nancy Ison performed fairly well. But the dialogue, plot and supporting cast left much to be desired. So much so that I think it's safe to say that this film was definitely not so "groovy". I have rated it accordingly.

I just bought Drive-in Cult Classics at Best Buy today and quickly put in Cindy and Donna after reading what this movie was about, hey I'm a guy and it sounded great!!! After watching this appalling heap of 70's garbage I realized that this T&A movie needed something else.........to be buried and NEVER watched again!!!!! I thought all I needed in a movie was an ample supply of booze, boobs and drugs but I was SO wrong!!! I do have to say that I loved the ending!!! It was so sudden and unexpected. I hope that the rest of the flicks on this set are better than this one. I am giving this 70's sexploitation flick a two for 2 BIG obvious reasons.

This was a great period movie. My mom and dad took me to the drive inn movies at Paintsville KY in 1971 and this was playing. They had no idea it was an adult film. When the first nude scene played we left and they were red faced. When I turned 18 the movie was playing at the Trail Drive Inn in Flatwoods KY and I went to see it. I really liked it. I wish they made more movies like this today. The acting was very good and I often wonder what happened to the stars of the film and if I can buy it on DVD. If anyone out there knows of where to buy this film on DVD please put up a post as I would really like to have this film in my collection.

For the information of your readers - I am the person who played the mother in Cindy and Donna. My stage name was: Suzy Allen. I never used the name Susy Allen and any information shown for Susy Allen does not apply to me. I don't know why I was not credited properly. I agree that Cindy and Donna was a terrible movie, but the stagehands and crew said I was the best actor in the movie! We spent an entire day filming one scene, with me and my "husband" driving on a freeway, with me nagging him about not taking me out often enough !! I had a lot of fun trying to be the whining, miserable wife for the movie, even though in real life I am nothing like that character. It was also very interesting for me to have to dub in some of my lines after the movie was finished. Quite a challenge to get everything right on cue.