Sixteen

Jun 3, 1972

1h 36m

★ 3.8

"Mercedes McCambridge is Ma Irtley. Threatened with salvation... Her daughter ravaged... Her son seduced... That's what $8,000 got the Irtleys!"

Overview

Hickspoiltation film from the early 1970s ostensibly starring Oscar nominee Mercedes McCambridge, but really more a film looking for an excuse to show off Simone Griffeth's beauty. She plays a daughter of a swamp family. The whole family goes to a carnival where she is seduced by an older male performer, while her teen brother is seduced by an older female performer.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Futurama International

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Cast

Mother

Mercedes McCambridge

Father

Ford Rainey

Naomi

Simone Griffeth

Bruvver

John Lozier

J.C.

Buddy Foster

Carmelita

Beverly Powers

Jake

Peter Greene

Reverend

Parley Baer

Aunt Ada

Maidie Norman

County Road Representative

Mitchell Edmonds

In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and the father is an ex-TV reporter, sleeping with his daughter and filming his son being beaten up, ‘Q’, a complete stranger enters the bizarre family, changing their lives for the better, finding a balance in their disturbing natures.

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