Honky (DVD)

The gorgeous Brenda Sykes plays Sheila, a hop, pot smoking Black teenager who wants to rebel against her "cop out" middle class parents.  Her quiet, casual sexuality keeps eyes glued to the screen because you don't want to miss a second of what this enchanting ingenue does next.  John Nielson is Wayne, her square, White boyfriend who wants to prove to Sheila how "down" he is.  He has his own "hang ups" about race but is drawn to Sheila, to the point where she convinces him to flip a kilo of prime Vietnamese grass.  Blond and chiseled, his innocent, blue eyed demeanor is the perfect foil to Sheila's fiery willfulness.  The great William Marshall (as Sheila's father), Marion Ross of television's Happy Days (Wayne's mom) and Blaxploitation stalwart Lincoln Kilpatrick (in a sleazy cameo as a drug dealer) perfectly round out this brilliant cast.