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November 1971 (USA)
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A love story...of hate
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Black girl from rich family loves white boy from poor family. | add synopsis
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Nominated for Golden Globe.
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Middling "checkerboard love" drama...a film of its time.
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(Credited cast) | Brenda Sykes | ... | Sheila Smith |
| John Neilson | ... | Wayne 'Honky' Divine |
 | Maia Danziger | ... | Sharon |
| Lincoln Lasel | ... | Archie Divine |
| William Marshall | ... | Dr. Craig Smith |
| Amentha Dymally | ... | Mrs. Smith |
 | Marion Ross | ... | Mrs. Divine |
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| Matt Clark | ||
| John Fiedler | ||
| Ivor Francis | ||
| John Hillerman | ||
 | Lincoln Kilpatrick | ||
 | Elliott Street | ||
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92 min
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In a more enlightened age when interracial relationships are widely accepted, films like "Honky" are pretty much abandoned by relevance and exist primarily as a time capsule. This is, nonetheless, a fairly decent 20th century American love story wherein the all-American blond-haired white boy finds himself quite happy to be in the loving arms of a young ebony goddess. Predictable tensions ensue.
Being that this film was made in a time of social tumult and change in America, it probably had a fair amount of appeal to younger audiences(there is also quite a bit of a "flower child" element here as well, namely in a scene where a boy on a bridge pelts swimming ducks with rocks. Our hippie heroin touches him softly, saying "you'd better learn how to love, boy-child". Then we see him again, tossing picked flowers into the water- LOL!)
This is not at all a "blaxploitation" picture, as its title and time-period might lead some to believe. Still, HONKY is a fairly worthy low-budget romance/drama with a surprisingly bitter resolve.
4.5/10...see also the largely neglected but groundbreaking 60s picture "ONE POTATO, TWO POTATO" which demonstrates a far more proficient handling of similar issues.