A year after she did "With Six You Get Eggroll" Barbara Hershey went on to a much darker and very far departure from Stacey Iverson with the film "Last Summer".
"Last Summer" centers around a young woman, Sandy, in her late teens who befriends and gets very very close to two boys. Their relationship becomes toxic to them and those around them, especially Rhoda who is very much the outside to their trio.
There's a lot to swallow with how these characters interact with one another and those around them. Even though they have their moments of being kind, I found it very hard to find any of them actually likable. Even by the end I couldn't even like Hershey.
I found it very interesting, but understandable that right after introducing herself as the sweet daughter in a family film she threw herself straight into roles that would involve her doing drugs, or getting raped and beaten (these two factors will come into play a lot more in the next few films). She was already 20 when she did "With Six You Get Eggroll" and she's 21 here once again playing a teenager so it could be by throwing herself into these darker rolls she could prove that she could handle herself and actually act.
With all this, "Last Summer" is a very good film and be warned, there are triggers in it for some people, but I still recommend that if you are a fan of Barbara's that you certainly check it out!
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