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Twinky 12 rating

Richard Donner directs this unlikely romance between a 38-year-old writer of erotic novels (Charles Bronson) and a 16-year-old schoolgirl (Susan George). After marrying and absconding to Scotland, the pair finds it hard to adjust to life together.

Comedy 1970 94 mins

Director: Richard Donner

Overview

Likely inspired by Christian Marquand’s Candy from the previous year, Twinky (known in America as Lola) exemplifies the popular late 1960s/early 1970s plot device that pairs a free-spirited younger woman with a middle-aged man – also seen in films such as Save the Tiger and Clint Eastwood’s Breezy.