Synopsis

It depicts the love story of an interracial

Interracial

Interracial is an adjective related to a supposed racial group. It can have different connotations in different contexts:* Interracial marriage is marriage between two people of different races....

 high school couple. The tagline

Tagline

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 for the movie was "A love story... of hate". It was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Song

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song was awarded for the first time in 1962 and has been awarded annually since 1965 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.-1960s:...

 for "Something More" by Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones

Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...

 and Bradford Craig.

Cast

Honky

Honky

Honky is a racial slur for white people, predominantly heard in the United States...

starred Brenda Sykes as Sheila Smith and John Neilson as Wayne "Honky" Devine. Jake Mannion and Harriet Gardiner of H.W.A also featured as themselves

Reviews

The movie received a poor review from The New York Times

The New York Times

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. Howard Thompson

Howard Thompson (film critic)

Howard Thompson was an US journalist and film critic whose career of forty-one years was spent at the New York Times....

started his review by saying "Honky is awful".