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Student Kate (Jo Johnston) wants to write a paper on the exploitation
of women in cheerleading for her journalism class, and thus goes
"undercover" as a cheerleader, something that her boyfriend Ron
(Ian Sander), a radical intellectual with a dark side, fully supports ...
until of course she falls for top jock Buck (Ron Hajak) and breaks up with
Ron in the process. This angers Ron so much that he gets one of Kate's
cheerleader friends, virginal Andrea (Rainbeaux Smith), so drunk that he
and his friends can gangbang her before she knows what's happening. And
then he only starts having his revenge of her - because you know, Kate
actually has taken to the cheerleader lifestyle and finds jocks shag
better than intellectuals, so she ditches her paper, but as she throws her
report into his trash bin, he picks it out and sees to it that Kate's
rival in the cheerleader team and for the affections of Buck, Mary Ann
(Colleen Camp), gets it, to properly expose Kate and her ulterior motives.
But in the meantime, Kate is investigating a betting fraud the football
team's coach (Jack Denton), its main investor (George Wallace) and one of
the professors (Jason Sommers) are hatching, and she makes herself even
more enemies doing so ... Now I'd be hard-pressed to say The
Swinging Cheerleaders is a great film, or even one of Jack Hill's best
ones, for that the plot is too all over the place, too indecisive where to
take the story or which audience section to cater to - but at the same
time, it's a great time capsule, a perfect piece of drive-in fare that
tries to pack everything into one movie, a bit of softcore sex (strictly
topless nudity), a bit of female empowerment, a bit of sports action, a
bit of social commentary, human drama and comedy alike, all blended in a
way to make this one an easily digestible movie for contemporary audiences
and a pleasurable trip down nostalgia lane for todays viewers.
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