Honky

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. Still and all, it's an important hindsight, and HONKY presents a fairly decent romantic tragedy wherein an all-American blond-haired white boy finds true love in the arms of a spirited young black girl. Predictable tensions ensue, and culminate in a bitterly dispiriting final curtain.

Being that this film was made in a time of social tumult and radical change in America, it probably appealed chiefly to a younger liberal audience(there is quite a bit of a "flower child" element here...in one scene, a boy on a bridge pelts swimming ducks with rocks. Our leading lady touches him softly, saying "you'd better learn how to love, boy-child". We then see him tossing picked flowers into the water- LOL!). It's not at all a "blaxploitation" item, as its title and time-period might lead some to believe, but it's a modestly engaging low-budget effort, and though it was somewhat exploitative in its time, it approaches its sensitive subject matter with rectitude and purpose.

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.