Born Innocent
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Movie Reviews of Born Innocent
Movie Review: A Runaway's Dilemma, Born Innocent-Amazon
Summary: 4 Stars
While serving time in the U.S. Navy and having read the paperback, "The Exorcist" and seeing the movies, one of my favorite actresses included Linda Blair who is the star of "Born Innocent." I had never seen this made for TV movie before and wonder who may have actually seen it then. The movie causes one to think about relationships and why a runaway thinks anything is better than going back home when one of her parents won't give her a chance to straighten up and fly right.Movie Review: UNPLEASANT CHILDHOOD MEMORY
Summary: 4 Stars
I remember watching this made for tv movie in the early seventies and being really disturbed by it, in a good way. The only part I can cearly recall is Linda Blair getting gang raped in the shower. This would make a great double bill with that other classic made for TV movie: Don't Ask Alice.Movie Review: Old Memories
Summary: 4 Stars
I first saw this when it was first shown on TV with the rape scene still in, but when I watched this DVD the rape scene was mild to today look. THe father in the show head was still in the 90 if you watch it with you kids.Movie Review: "Bored Innocent" Is More Like It
Summary: 3 Stars
Too tame to be an exploitation film yet too violent and adult to be an ABC Afterschool Special, "Born Innocent" suffers from this middle-of-the-road stance.
Cherub-faced Linda Blair (the Pia Zadora of the '70s and a then-hot-commodity due to her appearance in "The Exorcist") plays 14-year-old chronic runaway Christine Parker who is sent to a girls' reform school after her parents sign over their rights to the courts.
The film looks promising when she first arrives (a resident eggs another girl on to "Hit her....hit her") and we meet the requisite lesbians and teenage hookers but this film never lives up to its potential.
Another problem is that Blair doesn't have the ability to carry the movie and by the second half when we meet the parents and the teacher and warden get more screen time, it's too little, too late.
The transformation of Linda's character from baby-faced innocent to hardened inmate is illustrated by the contrast of her carefree image on a swing to smoking cigarettes and carving her initials into her own flesh.
The downbeat ending doesn't help the film, in which the teacher (whom all the girls refer to as "Mom" -- she's like a cross between Betty Buckley and Sandy Duncan) blubbers as she realizes she won't be able to "save" Linda/Christine.
This movie has a reputation and cult following, probably due to the shower room scene where poor Linda is sexually assaulted with a broom handle while a gang of girls hold her down.
But overall it's really a pretty dull affair. If you want something from the same era but much more fun and entertaining, check out 1973's "The Baby" starring Ruth Roman.
I wouldn't recommend paying the high price this out-of-print DVD commands. Rent it instead.
Movie Review: Not bad
Summary: 3 Stars
I expected a really poor quality rape exploitation film that I would have to chuck after seeing half of it or less. But instead it was a not bad and interesting story. The rape scene was graphic and disgusting, but it didn't last long and fit the story. Linda Blair was pretty good in it. The movie itself could have been done better, but it's worth watching as it is. Make your own mind up if you want to try it or not.