
Dennis Pitt, now in young adulthood, has been conditionally released from a psychiatric hospital, where he had been institutionalized for an incident that occurred when he was fifteen. Despite the doctors believing he to be rehabilitated in not suffering from the fantasies which dominated his life, Dennis is still required to check in with his case officer, Morton Azenauer, once a week. Azenauer will do whatever he can to help Dennis survive in the outside world. A year follo... (Full plot summary below)
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Dennis Pitt, now in young adulthood, has been conditionally released from a psychiatric hospital, where he had been institutionalized for an incident that occurred when he was fifteen. Despite the doctors believing he to be rehabilitated in not suffering from the fantasies which dominated his life, Dennis is still required to check in with his case officer, Morton Azenauer, once a week. Azenauer will do whatever he can to help Dennis survive in the outside world. A year following his release, Dennis violates the conditions of his release by moving without telling Azenauer, thus missing his weekly check-ins. He moves to Winslow, Massachusetts where he has gotten a job at Sausenfeld Chemical Co., his boss, Bud Munsch, the company, and his acquaintances in town not aware of his history. In not being truly rehabilitated, Dennis believes the company is part of an alien conspiracy to poison the water supply, including openly discharging chemical waste into the local lake next to the plant. Dennis spends much of his time gathering photographic evidence to support his belief. He also becomes infatuated with seventeen year old high school senior Sue Ann Stepanek upon first sight. In his "investigative" work, Dennis is able to convince Sue Ann that he is a secret agent, she who he co-opts into those investigations as they begin a romantic relationship. However, as Sue Ann deals with what she considers her repressed life, she, in her own slightly off kilter mental state and using her relationship with Dennis, works toward her own agenda, leading to tragic consequences.
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| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyThis cult item features Tuesday Weld in her best known role, as seemingly innocent highschool senior who's actually a cool nymphet killer pinning all mischief on her boyfriend--Anthony Perkins and Weld are a movie pair made in Heaven. |
| Village VoiceNick PinkertonLike any good study in couple's psychopathology, a familiar relationship is visible here, but in a parodic, mutated form. |
| Seanax.comSean Axmaker...He's an older guy, to be sure, and she's a beautiful high school majorette seemingly charmed by his secretive life and acronym-dotted small talk, but behind her schoolgirl smile is a cagey, bored girl with a sociopathic streak ... |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzOver the years has developed a strong cult following. |
| User ReviewPrivate UPretty twisted. Perkins always plays a wonderful psychopath. |
| User ReviewGreg VFantastic study of two troubled young people, with surprises aplenty. I giggled quite a lot at its dark comedic elements, yet there is something sinister here. |
| User ReviewJackson SWow, how come teenage girls are so insanely evil? |
| User ReviewBen CTuesday Weld's finest hour? Prime example of her "all-american unwholesomeness". Anthony Perkins is great as creepy (as usual) Dennis Pitt, delusional man just out of a mental institution. He wraps up lovely Sue Ann (Tuesday) in his outlandish fantasies, but who is manipulating whom? Plus, Beverly Garland, the tramp from Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, gives her best performance ever as Sue Ann's beastly, ill-fated mother. Unfairly ignored black, black, black comedy. Precursor to (and better than) Natural Born Killers. |
| User ReviewMichael SThis movie is crazy, you got a crazy maniac and a girl who seems to be pretty, but just as crazy as him. Who knew this relationship wouldn't work! |
| User ReviewSean CDeliciously twisted! If you are a fan of the psychological thriller, I highly recommend this movie! |