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Big Bad Mama (1974)

Big Bad Mama poster
Directed by
Steve Carver
Genre
action film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
R
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 75 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A mother and her two daughters go on a crime spree during the Great Depression. When the mother falls for a bank robber, things take a turn for the worse.

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What happens

Big Bad Mama is a 1974 American action-crime-sexploitation comedy film produced by Roger Corman, starring Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, and Tom Skerritt, with Susan Sennett and Robbie Lee. The film is about a mother, Wilma (played by Dickinson), and her two daughters, Polly (Robbie Lee) and Billie Jean (Susan Sennett), who go on a crime spree. After the mother unexpectedly falls in love with a bank robber it all ends, with tragic consequences. Big Bad Mama became a cult hit and was followed by a sequel, Big Bad Mama II, in 1987. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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