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Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Dear Arthur Marks, Bonnie's Kids was a nice piece of erotic entertainment. There isn't much in it except for the scantily dressed Tiffany Bolling and Robin Mattson strutting their stuff. Though I liked the locales too - American highways, motels, gas stations and that large farm.The plot was also mildly interesting. A pair of sisters shack up with an uncle and his lesbian wife after they murder their lecherous step father who could not keep his hands off them. The sisters are desperate to escape their commonplace existence. When a chance to steal her uncle's money during an errand presents itself, the elder sister (the gorgeous Tiffany Bolling) goes for it.There are enough occasions for the ladies to shed their clothes and walk around showing off their legs. There isn't much in terms of dialogues (Robin Mattson's outburst at her lesbian aunt was quite hilarious though) or plot developments. But you kept it tight. There were some interesting characters like the square salesman who tries to court Tiffany. The freewheeling background score is supposed to remind us that it is all just good fun. Nice effort overall, Arthur.Best Regards, Pimpin.(6/10)

Drive-in exploitation movie that is teeming with unlikable characters. I would say that Alex Rocco is the most sympathetic person I could find, and he is a hit-man just trying to do his job. Rocco also provides far and away the best acting in "Bonnie's Kids". The story of manipulating sisters, Tiffany Bolling, and Robin Matson, often bogs down with meaningless small talk and titillating sexual teasing. 105 minutes running time seems excessive, but the story is way above average, and several catchy tunes are memorable. There are also some moments of dark humor thrown into the mix. Not exactly the "classic" others may think it is, but still quite entertaining. - MERK

It may be a bit hard to fathom why this is called "Bonnie's Kids" when the mother character "Bonnie" is dead before the movie even starts and does not appear at all, even in flashbacks. But this is no doubt a reference to the movie "Bonnie and Clyde" which this film at times certainly resembles. Two sisters are living with their drunken, brutish stepfather after the death of their prostitute mother. The older sister (Tiffany Bolling) catches the stepfather trying to molest the younger sister(Robin Mattson) and shoots him dead. The two go on the lam and end up at the home of an uncle, who owns a fashion magazine, but (rather incongruously) is also a vicious gangster on the side. The older sister goes to pick up a "package" for the uncle from a dimwitted private detective. They fall for each other and when they discover the "package" is a large amount of cash, they flee with it with two of the uncle's dangerous associate (Alex Rocco, Timothy Brown ) in hot pursuit. Meanwhile, the younger sister is seducing practically everyone in her uncle's household from his studly gardener to his lonely lesbian wife. The ending makes the finale of "Bonnie and Clyde" seem positively cheery by comparison.This movie has a real early 70's atmosphere of bleak pessimism to it, much like "The Candy Snatchers", another cult film of that era starring Bolling. It isn't just the downbeat ending though, but the fact that ALL the characters are totally amoral and unsympathetic, even the supposed heroines. The two sisters are more than willing to use their sexy bodies to get what they want and they seem completely untroubled by morals or basic human feelings. After convincing him to steal the money, the older sister is perfectly willing to betray her private detective beau and run off with a lecherous traveling salesman to save her own skin. The younger sister, meanwhile, is even more callous: she drives one of her lovers to suicide and then just laughs when she discovers the body. In the end, she doesn't even seem to care about the fate of her older sister.These sexy but totally unsympathetic heroine roles were pretty much the specialty of Tiffany Bolling. So, not surprisingly, she's pretty good here. This is one of Mattson's first movies, but she would go on to a brief exploitation career (i.e. "Candy Stripe Nurses"), and a much longer career in American television. In way she almost manages to "out-Bolling" Bolling here. She was still pretty young when she did this role, but nevertheless men (and lesbians) everywhere will no doubt be thankful that they don't have a malicious temptress like THIS for a stepdaughter. Director Arthur Marks, who also produced "The Candy Snatcher" would go on to do a couple influential "blaxploitation" movies ("Detroit 9000", "J.D.s Revenge"). I can't say this movie will fit everyone's taste, but one things for sure--they don't make 'em like this anymore.

Brassy, sharp-witted, take-charge vixen-on-wheels Ellie (leggy, beauteous 70's B-movie perennial Tiffany Bolling at her most trampy and tantalizing) and her adorable, dewy-eyed, flirtatious younger sister Myra (cute, tiny, girlish Robin Mattson, who served her time in such grind-house schlock as "Candy Stripe Nurses" and "Return to Macon County" before moving on to more respectable work in the soap operas "All My Children," "General Hospital," "Ryan's Hope," and "Santa Barbara") are a pair of delectable, no where near as "innocent" as they seem country babes who live in relative squalor with their gross, irritable, lecherous step-dad Charlie (a memorably vile Leo Gordon), a real scuzzbucket who gets blasted by a shotgun-hefting Ellie after he attempts to rape Myra. Ellie and Myra hightail it to the big city and hole up with their wealthy, crooked Uncle Ben (the ever-gruff Scott Brady), who's elbow deep in assorted illegal activities. Ben's shady sleazeball partner Eddie (a sensationally slimy performance from consummate hambone thespian Alex Rocco) and Eddie's equally no-count libidinous pal Digger (a coolly vicious Timothy Brown) hire dopey, wishy-washy private eye Larry Evans (an amiably addle-pated Steve Sandor) to pick up a valuable suitcase full of mucho stolen loot; Ben sends Ellie along to make sure the pick-up goes smoothly. Naturally, Larry and Ellie become an item, acquire the package, and decide to keep the hot cash all for themselves. They hightail it to Mexico. Eddie and Digger give chase.Graced with an appropriately amoral, cold-blooded tone, several suitably mean and jolting plot twists, languorous, but steady pacing, a nice streak of bitch-black humor (Digger and Eddie accidentally blow away the wrong couple at a seedy motel!), and generous offerings of sex, violence and nudity, "Bonnie's Kids" makes for a really enjoyable, fairly surprising and pleasingly junky nickel'n'dime crime melodrama which nicely fits into the then faddish film noir tradition (Bolling in particular makes for a marvelously bitchy and conniving femme fatale). Arthur ("J.D.'s Revenge") Marks' solid direction and the clever script carry the day with commendably brisk, no-frills efficiency, capably abetted by Carson Whitset's funky, insouciant, rumbling jazz score, Robert Charles Wilson's adroit, animated, occasionally leering cinematography (Mattson takes a welcome nude bath at the very start of the picture and Bolling is first seen in an eye-catching rear end sticking up at the camera shot, looking mighty desirable in a tight, clingy hash slinger uniform), a gritty subtext which explores with stark frankness the grim reality concerning greed and betrayal, a wonderfully wicked surprise bummer ending, and top-rate cameos from veteran character actor Max Showalter as a sludgebag traveling salesman and a pre-"Cagney and Lacey" Sharon Gless as a weary greasy spoon waitress. An unjustly neglected little sleeper which was often double-billed with the fantastic "The Candy Snatchers" at drive-ins back in the day.