Clever cinematic pastiche artist Anna Biller has a great eye for the cheesy/sleazy details that make the late 1960s-early '70s sexploitation movies of Radley Metzger (THE ALLEY CATS), Russ Meyer (VIXEN) and Herschell Gordon Lewis (SUBURBAN ROULETTE) such trash-culture treats. But unlike Quentin Tarantino, who borrows what's good about grindhouse fare and makes something better, Bilder's feature -- for better or worse -- is virtually indistinguishable from the largely mediocre source material.
Vivacious, raven-haired Barbi Smith (Bilder) is trapped in a dull, suburban Southern Californian existence that gets even duller when she's fired from secretarial job ...
Released:
2008
Rated:
NR
Length:
122 mins