"Cassandra Leigh" (Barbara Marks) is a young high school senior who makes good grades but feels suffocated at home by her domineering mother. One day while at work she meets a small group of motorcyclists and decides to start hanging out with them. One thing leads to another and soon she begins devoting more and more time smoking marijuana with her new friends while spending less time with her family and former friends. She also begins neglecting her homework which results in her grades dropping to such a significant degree that she is no longer eligible for entry into a college. With few other choices available she decides to marry her high school boyfriend but then finds life so meaningless that she soon gravitates to drugs. It's at this time that her life spirals out of control. Now rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that I thought the underlying story was quite interesting. Unfortunately, the method of using a narrative style--instead of having the actors speaking their lines--really hurt the overall entertainment value of the film. As a matter of fact, this technique almost made it seem more like a documentary than a movie. Again, it had an interesting plot but all things considered I have to rate this movie as below average.
Review of One Way Ticket to Hell
