Guerilla filmmaking at its finest, Patti Rocks is a dynamic three character adult comedy shot on the microscopic budget of $350,000. With no special effects, some offbeat sexual situations and lots of knowing, hilarious dialogue, the film is eons better than 99% of Hollywood movies that portend to study the battle of the sexes.

Originally rated “X” because of its incredibly salty script, Patti Rocks is essentially the story of two men and a woman. The title character (played by Karen Landry) is an earthy, down-to-earth single woman who is pregnant. The father of the child is a sexist dim-wit named Billy (Chris Mulkey). Along with his more sensitive friend, Eddie (John Jenkins), Billy takes a cross-country car trip to tell Patti that he’s married. Billy, of course, assumes Patti will get an abortion.

The first half of the movie focuses on Billy and Eddie’s ride across the Midwest. It is filled with some amazing, raunchy dialogue, tinged with cynicism, male ego and unbelievable stereotyping. Do men really talk like this when they get together? Sorry to say – yes! At first the two friends’ conversations appear overblown and purposefully sexist, but then the satire sinks in.

It’s not just the piggy Billy who could use some sessions in psychoanalysis, either, Eddie is afraid of commitment and Patti herself will continue to sleep with different men even after the child is born. According to director David Burton Morris and his three collaborator/actors, these three characters – as hyped up as they may appear at first – stand for the screwy state of man-woman relationships, circa 1988.