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A trashy teen murders her sexually abusive step-father, then helps get her reformed prison pen-pal released on good behavior so that she can re-corrupt him.
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This reworking of the seminal 1949 film noir of the same name has gained a cult following but unfortunately eliminates the focus on compulsion and sexuality of the original and instead becomes an action-romance, with some good performances but little substance. Drew Barrymore plays an essentially nice young woman who has unfortunately never had a chance to be anything but a bad girl. She was raised in an isolated, redneck desert town in a trashy trailer park. Abused and unloved from an early age, the young woman has been derisively called the town "sperm bank" by her provincial peers. Life is bleak and hopeless for young Anita until she begins writing Howard, a prison inmate who has found God and sincerely wants to reform. While awaiting his parole, Anita learns to shoot because she knows Howard likes shooting. She soon proves to be an exceptional shot and finds she likes shooting guns much better than she does having sex (which is a good thing because Howard turns out to be impotent). They team up after his release, but despite his good intentions he is soon drawn back to a life of crime through the actions of Anita. Now the two lost souls must flee for their lives and continue with the violence. The film was first aired on the Showtime cable network and was later released theatrically.
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