Pretty Poison
The spy fantasies of an oddball parolee (Anthony Perkins) are upstaged by a dangerously bored high-school senior (Weld) who takes them in deadly stride.
In Noel Black’s vertiginous black-comic cult favorite, Weld brings a sunnily ominous twist to the all-American-girl archetype as a dangerously bored high-school senior who runs away with the spy fantasies of an arsonist parolee (Anthony Perkins). Perkins’s backtalking oddball, working at a paint factory, finds the tables turned when he draws Weld’s all-too-game drum majorette into CIA make-believe. Mother doesn’t approve, the small-town frolics turn deadly, and the shapeshifting between escapism and paranoia captures the moment.
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