Brainwash (1981)
Director:
Bobby Roth
Writers:
Beth Sullivan (screenplay), Steve Bello (screenplay)Stars:
Yvette Mimieux, Christopher Allport, Cindy Pickett
Also known as Mystique, Circle of Power and The Naked Weekend, Brainwash is not recommended viewing for any aspiring executive about to undergo leadership classes. Yvette Mimieux plays the head of an organization called Executive Development Training, or EDT for short. Her grueling technique requires that both the male trainees and their wives participate. Few of the participants seem psychologically suited for the EST-like excesses of EDT: one man is a closeted homosexual, another an alcoholic, a third a transvestite. Nor is Yvette about to cater to the more sensitive of her charges: at one point, an obese trainee is forced to eat garbage. It's hard to tell if we're supposed to take all this seriously or not.
