Sunburst (1975)
4/10
I'd like to dive for her sponge
24 November 2014
Warning: Spoilers
****SPOILERS*** Sick and tired of the dog eat dog rat race that's going on all around them collage students Robert, Peter Hooten, and Jenny, Kathy Burmann, decide to move to the country and meet up with their good friend former collage student but now full-time nature boy Michael Sutherland, Robert Englund, who's built himself a cabin, dilapidated as it is, in the woods there. It's just before they reach their destination the two meet up with what looks like hardware store owner Rudy Vallee, who warns them that there's trouble in them woods and if they know any better to stay away from them. As it turned out Robert & Jenny didn't heed Rudy Vallee's advice and before you or they knew it ended they up paying for it.

Going out skinny dipping in the local lake Robert & Jenny are confronted by these two mountain men Levon & Danker, James Keach & David Pritchard,looking for, not fish or sightseeing, action. It's not that long when they caught both Robert & jenny in an unguarded moment the two mountain men gang raped Jenny and beat unconscious Robert who tried to come to her rescue. It's when nature boy Michael showed up he helped Jenny get over her being raped as well as the guilt ridden Robert, in not being able to defend her, from feeling bad about himself by brewing them up a cup of his specially -made herbal tea. The tea seemed to work much better in clearing both Robert & Jenny's heads then then them smoking a joint or taking an aspirin.

****SPOILERS**** Of course the movie couldn't end with Robert getting his revenge against Levon & Danker which he did singlehandedly without any help from his friend the pacifist Michael who besides being a nature lover abhorred any kind of violence. Walking together hand In hand into the sunset to a blast of annoying and schmaltzy 1970's type hippie music both Robert & Jenny finally found their peace not yet quite realizing what, living in the woods and away from civilization, kind of hardships is awaiting them.

P.S Check out Peter Brown as the professor who, in his film debut, was the second voice of the MP in the 1957 Marlon Brando hit movie "Sayonara" as well as a regular on the morning TV soap opera "Days of our Lives".
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