Monday, September 2, 2013

Drive-In (1976)

Columbia Pictures
Directed by Rod Amateau
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Sony Movie Channel)

Amiable if ultimately forgettable story of a night at a Texas drive-in. The local rednecks are introduced in the first half, consisting mostly of high school students interested in getting laid, who hang out at the roller skating rink and listen to country music. Other boring story lines include a couple of bumbling hubcap thieves planning to rob the drive-in and a gang of losers who drive around in their van. The story lines eventually converge on the drive-in, where "Disaster '76", a spoof of disaster movies, plays out on the screen and the yahoos find love at the concession stand. Ironically, the movie-within-a-movie is the more entertaining.

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