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Less an orphanage than a prison the Sacred Heart likely doesn't use Dr. Spock as a consultant. Piper won't eat his food, will he? Forget what Dr. Joyce Brothers and Donahue say, and get ever-resourceful disciplinarian Mr. Kurtz (Murphy Dunne). Wielding a Duracell-powered cattle-prod, Dunne drives the kids into the meditation room, a meat freezer with carcasses as wall décor. There, Piper meets his fellow prisoners: Mouse (Michael Hentz), Whitey (Joey Coleman), Blackie (Christopher Brown,) and Joey (Pamela Segall...
Everyone wants out, but only Piper seems to know the land beyond the electric fence and barbed wire. Back in the meditation room after Piper's first attempted break, the four become blood brothers the old-fashioned way, each cutting a finger and letting the blood mix with all. "That's corny," says one. "Real blood in never corny." Piper shouts back...
...that sounds corny, but somehow Olden makes Piper genuine and likeable. Even pulling is knife or punching out his shrink, Olden looks more troubled and pensive than simply angry and resentful. Too young and too untouched by the Francis Ford Coppola idol maker crowd to play the latest Matt Dillon or Poster of the Week, Olden acts and acts well...
...taste of John Rivers, Sister Serena markets her "kids" like a Romco television ad. "How about a conversation piece?" she asks, singling out her single Black charge. "Something South of the Border?" Our caricatured Ozzie and Harriet demur. "We already have a gardener." Finally they take Mouse, and Piper in short order leads what has become by now his gang in a reunion-bound break from the Bleeding Heart...
After enough of this, Olden seems almost too disgusted to go on. At the nadir of the film, Piper and company tie Valley Girl to a piano and make some allusions to rape. An R rating may be worth a lot in extra ticket sales; it's not worth this...