NickStricharchuk Cindy Donna: The story of two horny half-sisters suffering suburban ennui in the 1970s. Virginal,15-year-old Cindy idolizes her older, sexually promiscuous half-sister, Donna. When she spies Donna banging her father (Donna's stepfather), Cindy decides that she's ready to experiment with her body and her sexuality, too. More sex (and tragedy) ensues. The staff that worked on this flick knew it was smarmy when they made it. It's good fun to watch, primarily because Cindy, played by Debbie Osborne, is insanely cute and spends a lot of her time in various stages of undress. The film also has a ridiculous, schmaltzy soundtrack that's half awe-filled, horn-ball sleaze and half after-school special. A highlight of the Drive-In Cult Classics collection.

tmccollum97 Recently, I discovered a box set of "Drive-In Cult Classics" somewhere in my house, and decided to watch some. Though I didn't watch every movie on the collection, I have to say so far 1970's "Cindy & Donna" may be the worst of them. Let me just explain why: Cindy Weeks (Debbie Osbourne) is a young, inquisitive teenager who is longing to have sex, for the sake of the experience. Her best friend, Karen (Cheryl Powell) is already sexually active and, throughout the movie, convinces her that she's "GOT to try it" and "she doesn't know what she's missing". Cindy's older sister, 17-year-old Donna (Nancy Ison) is also sexually active, having sex with practically any guy she sees. Next we have the mother of the two sisters: Harriett (Sue Allen), who, in a nutshell, is old, drunk, and bitchy. Their father, Ted (Max Manning) is a fat, horny middle-aged man having an affair with a 17-year-old stripper named Alice (Alice Fredlund). * * * There's not much plot in this movie. Every two minutes there's sex scene that goes on for, usually, one long, drawn-out take. Literally, there's no different camera angles or anything. Occasionally, the camera will zoom in or out slightly, but other than that it's mostly a guy and a girl (and at one point, tow chicks, and just one girl by herself) going at it. * * * I'll try to describe the little story there is to this movie... After watching her older sister have sex, as well as her friend telling her how wonderful it is, Cindy is curious about what sex is like. So one day at the beach, while Karen is having her fun, Cindy tries having sex with a random dude she found on the beach. However, she is uncomfortable, and doesn't want to do it. Menawhile, Donna is whoring herself to a man named Greg (Tom Koben)in exchange for some weed. There's even a scene where she agrees to take naked pictures while two of Greg's friends have their way with her as well. Amongst that, the father, like I said, has an affair with a young stripper named Alice. But even during the affair he comes home late one night, walks into Donna's room, and rapes her in her sleep while Cindy secretly witnesses it. After that, the incident is never mentioned again. It all really takes off in one scene where Cindy and Karen have some lesbian sex while high on reefer. * * * Upon waking up later, Cindy decides she finally wants to have sex with a man. So, she seduces Greg. In one final, long sex scene, Cindy and Greg do the uncovered bathing suit area dance. Donna walks in on the action, freaks out, and after Greg pushes her out the front door like an asshole, accidentally wanders out into the street. All of a sudden, an oncoming car runs her over, killing her. (The car doesn't look like it stopped after running her over) Cindy witnesses the accident and lets out a shrill scream as the screen fades to white and shows stock footage of Cindy on a swing in a park. The words "the end" appear on screen and it's over. No end credits or anything. * * * Final verdict: BAD. Very bad. It gives us nothing but soft core porn and a badly written, unexpected and unacceptable ending which, personally, left me with nightmares for two weeks. So if you want practically nothing but sex, nudity, and maybe the worst ending in film history, then check it out.

lazarillo A teenage virgin, Cindy, is curious about SEX. She watches her older half-sister Donna have SEX with her boyfriend in his car, and then she has SEX with herself afterwards. Meanwhile her father is busy having a lot of SEX with a nubile stripper/prostitute, which doesn't stop him from staggering home in a drunken stupor and having SEX with Donna (his own step-daughter)while Cindy spies on them. Cindy responds to this by going to the beach with her more experienced best friend where they pick up two boys. Her friend has SEX with one of the boys, while Cindy almost has SEX with the other. Later they return back to her house (her parents have gone away to Vegas) where they smoke a joint and end up having lesbian SEX with each other. Meanwhile, sister Donna poses for nude photographs for her boyfriend's friends and has SEX with all three of them. And then finally Cindy at long last has SEX with a guy.You get the idea that this movie has a lot of sex in it. In fact, it kind of suffers the "curse of too much sex", a problem afflicting almost all hardcore sex films and many softcore films like this: There is so much sex in this movie that it pretty much crowds out anything else of interest (i.e. plot, character development, basic production values). So unless you are a young, heterosexual male who is planning to spend 90 some minutes masturbating, I really can't recommend this. It does have some sicko 70's elements (for instance, the quasi-incest), which will probably offend the sensibilities of some, but for me there is not nearly enough of this since it at least makes the movie less boring. There is also some attempted "comedy relief" by the two drunken parents, but they are mostly just annoying.The only possible saving grace of this movie is that the four actresses who play the young people (the two sisters, the friend, and the father's mistress) are all very attractive, which isn't always a given in 70's films (70's porn actresses were often pimply and corpulent and generally looked like they'd been picked up in a Times Square vice dragnet). The four girls are obviously all somewhat older than the "teenage" characters they play, but they all have a nubile girl-next-door freshness without the freakishly huge breasts or the unnatural Russ Meyeresque proportions (not to metion the silicone Frankenstein look so common in these kind of movies today). This is still no reason for anybody but a hairy-palmed sex fiend to watch this movie, of course, but it should make it a little more fun at least for those who fall into that category.

britwit 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.