HONEY DON’T

Name: HONEY DON’T
Item: HONEY DON’T
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"Abhorrent Humanist, Anti-Christian, Lesbian, Anti-Male Thriller"

Family Content: -4 Intentional blasphemy, evil, gross immorality, and/or worldview problems. (To be avoided)

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What You Need To Know:

HONEY DON’T is a muddled thriller about a lesbian private detective in Bakersfield, California who investigates the murder of a female member of a wacky hybrid Christian-New Age church. The pastor takes advantage of his female congregants while selling drugs for a French drug cartel. Honey O’Donoughue, the private eye, tells the cops that the dead woman was going to talk to her abut some strange situations at the church. As Honey investigates the murder, she has a torrid affair with a policewoman. Suddenly, Honey’s teenage niece goes missing. Is her disappearance related?

HONEY DON’T spends too much time focusing on the sex life of its lesbian protagonist and the wayward New Age pastor. The pastor orders a henchman to murder one of his delivery men who killed an important client. The fight scene between the two henchmen and the delivery man’s grandmother is extremely brutal. HONEY DON’T also has a strong humanist, feminist anti-male viewpoint with lots of strong foul language. It frowns on the pastor’s hedonism but celebrates the female protagonist’s hedonism. The pastor’s victims don’t seem to mind, however.

Content:

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Very strong humanist, hedonistic, feminist, lesbian worldview with a suspect who happens to be the pastor of a hybrid Christian-New Age Church where the pastor has open explicit affairs with the females in his congregation while counseling them and running a vicious and violent drug gang on the side;

Foul Language:

About 35 obscenities (including about 24 “f” words), two strong profanities using versions of the name of Jesus Christ, three GD profanities, and 12 light profanities;

Violence:

Some extreme and strong bloody violence includes an assassin ends up in a deadly bloody battle between a man and his elderly grandmother with knives and other sharp and blunt implements (including household and kitchen items), all three characters die during that fight, man driving a car deliberately runs over another man two or three times, a final deadly battle between the heroine and the crazed villain who has a big knife, and a gunshot is heard outside a building but the woman outside the building strangely never runs into the building to investigate, which doesn’t make much sense;

Sex:

Extreme sexual content includes several explicit lesbian scenes and several scenes of explicit fornication between a pastor and female members of his church, pastor also tries to proposition the female lesbian protagonist, a male police detective tries to get a date with her and comically doesn’t believe when she says she only likes women, and a teenage character is pregnant with her boyfriend’s baby;

Nudity:

Full frontal female nudity when a woman swims naked, and many images of upper and rear female nudity and upper and rear male nudity in the sex scenes, plus a detective finds that a murdered woman has a black sado-masochistic outfit under bed;

Alcohol Use:

Some alcohol use;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

Brief smoking, and a pastor of a hybrid Christan New Age church snorts cocaine two or more times and runs a vicious drug gang where he orders murders of people who cross him or make mistakes; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Strong miscellaneous immoral or problematic content such as a strange elderly man approaches a woman and her pregnant teenage niece in two separate scenes and tells them, “I love you,” the woman goes in search of her niece who’s disappeared after her encounter with the man, but the woman finds out the old man had nothing to do with the niece’s disappearance, the niece’s mother has more children than she can afford and has another baby on the way, and the niece doesn’t get along with her mother.

More Detail:

HONEY DON’T is a muddled thriller about a lesbian private detective in Bakersfield, Calif., who investigates the murder of a female member of a wacky hybrid Christian-New Age church whose pastor takes advantage of his female congregants while selling drugs for a French drug cartel. HONEY DON’T is more interested in shocking moviegoers with explicit sex scenes and graphic bits of extreme violence, plus lots of strong foul language, than presenting a serious, much less entertaining or insightful, mystery thriller.

The movie opens with a woman walking down a steep slope off the highway to where a car has crashed. Inside the car is the dead body of a young red-haired young woman. The woman then leaves, and, in the next scene, she goes skinny dipping in a pool of blue water.

It turns out that the dead woman in the car was stabbed to death, and her body then placed in the car before someone pushed the car off the road down the slope. Also, the day before, the woman had called Honey O’Donoughue, a tough-talking lesbian private eye, to tell her that’s she’s found something disturbing at her church, which is pastored by a silver-tongued devil named Drew Devlin.

As Honey investigates the murder, there are scenes of the Reverend Devlin enjoying wild sex with his female congregants, whom he gives lots of advice. Devlin’s also running a violent drug gang. For example, when one of his delivery men kills one of his best clients, he sends an assassin to kill the man and his Mexican grandmother. A vicious fight breaks out in the grandmother’s house, and all three people end up dead.

Meanwhile, Honey goes from one lesbian affair to another. She ends up with the policewoman who runs the local police department’s evidence locker. The two women begin a torrid affair.

Meanwhile, the woman who visited the car crash in the beginning turns out to be a representative from the French drug cartel supplying Reverend Devlin with the drugs he sells. She informs Devlin that the cartel isn’t happy with the way he’s running things.

HONEY DON’T spends too much time focusing on the sex life of its lesbian protagonist and the wayward New Age pastor. The fight scene between the two henchmen and the grandmother is extremely brutal. The night before, the delivery man targeted for assassination panics and mindlessly runs over the pastor’s rich client. The delivery man even takes the time to back his car up to run over the client again.

It turns out that both Honey and the policewoman had terrible fathers who beat them. Thus, HONEY DON’T has a strong feminist, anti-male worldview. Ironically, the women in the movie can also be quite vicious. So, the title character’s obsession with having lesbian affairs turns out to be a dangerous one.

HONEY DON’T also has lots of strong foul language. It’s reportedly the second movie in a trilogy of movies about lesbians by Director Ethan Cen and his wife of 34 years, Tricia Cooke. The first movie was last year’s DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS. Director Ethan Coen co-wrote both movies with Tricia, a self-described lesbian (and apparently bisexual). Both Ethan and Tricia reportedly have separate anonymous “partners.” Like HONEY DON’T, DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS has strong Anti-Christian, hedonistic content.

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