Ellie (Tiffany Bolling) kills her lecherous stepfather (Leo
Gordon) when he tries to rape her sister, Myra (Robin Mattson). Together, they stash the body and take off for
Los Angeles where they hit up their rich uncle (Scott Brady) for a place to
stay. Eventually, he ropes Ellie and a
slow-on-the-draw private investigator (Steve Sandor) into a scheme involving a
bag full of money. She convinces the
P.I. to take the money and run away with her and it isn’t long between her
uncle’s associates (Alex Rocco and Timothy Brown) are in hot pursuit.
Bonnie’s Kids starts out as standard drive-in fare before
slowly revealing itself as a quasi-Elmore Leonard type of crime picture. Director Arthur Marks (who later had a great
run of directing Blaxploitation flicks like Bucktown, Friday Foster, and J.D.’s
Revenge) does a particularly fine job during the sleazy pre-credits sequence. Some of the back-and-forth over the money
gets a bit repetitive late in the game, but for the most part, Marks keeps
things running smoothly, even when the film is hopping from genre to genre.
The cast is great, which helps tremendously. Tiffany (Wicked, Wicked) Bolling should have
been a star. Whenever she’s front and
center, the movie really crackles.
Mattson is equally fine as the Lolita-like spitfire who plays with the
affections of both men and women alike. Old pros Rocco and Brady add extra
dimension to their already colorful characters and leave memorable impressions as well.
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