I Need (film)

I Need (or I Need a Man) is a 1967 American drama film about a disturbed teenager.

It was the first movie from Beverly and Fred Sebastian who self financed it for $7,000 and filmed it around Houston. The Sebastians distributed the films themselves and managed to recoup their money, launching their careers.

Premise
A woman is assaulted and becomes a nymphomaniac.

Cast

 * Ceci Weathers as Ceci
 * Tom Hunter as Alex
 * Jay Froman as Murry
 * Sylvia Froman sa Mother

Production
The credited writer "Ann Cawthorne" was a psedonym for Beverly Sebastian.

Ferd Sebastian later said "Like in most of our films we did all the work. But in that one I mean all, there was only the two of us and the cast which was about 4 people."

Reception
Ferd Sebastian said "it is the only picture we ever made in black and white and that was too artsy... it has a little sex and it has a little of this but it's very artsy. It looks like a Fellini film or something."

The Sebastians said the film was not making money in cinemas until a distributor bought the film, and created a poster using a still from the movie where a woman looks like she is having sex, then added the log line "I need a man." This was a successful technique although the Sebastians recognised it misrepresented the film.

A 1993 article said the film had made several hundred thousand dollars.