Katie Says Goodbye, written and directed by Wayne Roberts 9 out of 10

Katie Says Goodbye, written and directed by Wayne Roberts
9 out of 10


Thank God for Cinemax.
They aired this extraordinary film last night and they have on offer so many other incredible productions.

Katie is the heroine of this motion picture and a Wonder Woman, a role model on some levels.
She is only seventeen and lives with her rather abusive mother, Tracey.

The parent does nothing for the teenager who has to support her, pay the rent - indeed, she gives Tracey the money to pay and this vicious woman doesn't- work as a slave for an indolent figure, who has her nails painted, make up arranged for her by the poor girl.
They live in a small place where there are no good prospects and Katie wants to Say Goodbye.

She would like to move to San Francisco, but her wages as a waitress would not be sufficient.
Especially if we consider that she has to support two people.

Therefore, she becomes a prostitute, accepting meager payment from the local men...the policemen, mechanics and some visitors.
One becomes a good friend, Bear, played by James Belushi.
The nice, kind, positive, friendly, optimistic, suffering Katie is also admired and supported by her boss at the restaurant, Maybelle aka Mary Steenburgen.

Everything changes with the arrival of Bruno aka Christopher Abbott, who works as a mechanic in the vicinity.
Katie falls in love with this young man, who is quiet, rather tense, affected probably by the time he had spent in jail.

The heroine becomes his lover and when the man is told about the sex his friend had offered for money, he asks her.
Katie tells him the truth, her plan to move to San Francisco, for which she had had these relations, which mean nothing to her...

If you want me to stop, I will stop.

And she does put an end to all that, including with Bear, who is very understanding, supportive and even proud of this remarkable girl.
Alas, Dirk is a villain working in the same mechanics shop with Bruno and is envious and furious that he had never had sex with the attractive Katie.

With the kinder, but still guilty and responsible Matty, he offers Katie a ride and then takes the car off the main road, into the wild.
This is where he demands to have coitus with the heroine.

When she refuses, stating that she no longer does that, she is raped first by Dirk and then by Matty.
Those are monsters, especially Dirk, who boasts in front of Bruno about what happened, saying they had been offered free sex, not that they raped the girl.

Stupid Bruno takes revenge on the woman who loves him, believing what he had heard.

Katie Says Goodbye is an excellent, poignant, deserving, intense, emotional, heartbreaking film, with an unlikely Super Woman, Wonder Human in the person of the strong Katie.