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Gidget Meets Hondo
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Gidget Meets Hondo

1980-10-10 · 8 min · Not rated

Filmed in response to the LAPD’s shooting of Eulia Love in 1979, Gidget Meets Hondo opens with stills taken by Bernard Nicolas of a demonstration against Love’s killing. Nicolas’ Gidget is a self-absorbed young white woman who remains clueless to the violence erupting around her, ultimately to her own peril. The film asks whether such police brutality would be tolerated if the victim were a middle-class white woman.

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Directors
Bernard Nicolas
Production companies
UCLA School of Film and Television
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United States of America
Status
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Bernard NicolasBernard Nicolas
Peggy Skomal
Reginald Bruce
John Paspachel
Marie Contin
Michael FriendMichael Friend

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