The life and death of Playboy bunny Dorothy Stratten - "Movie of the Week" style.
This is sad: A young life was stubbed out and she is barely in her grave before some film producers who want to dig her up in order to bury her again!
All in the name of a Hollywood quick buck. Not unique - far from it - but sad all the same.
Sex is being used to sell a film (look at the soft-core poster), but in reality it is a fraud. There is some sex-and-nudity, but it is not sexy. Indeed it is just a clichéd wages-of-sin morality play - done by old pros that that can only move the furniture about a bit in the vain hope of disguise.
(And the above isn't a spoiler, by the way, the film's own promotion went out of its way to tell you how it turns out - probably because the end is as well known as the sinking of the Titanic!)
There is nothing worse than a film born in to bondage (in the original sense of the word!) Young virgin girl is corrupted by sleaze ball who takes her dignity and, after much boring filler (which includes actually marrying her), her life.
In all films about people involved in the "adult business" the woman doesn't want to do it and only agrees to it because of some big-bad-male-pimp. Why are there are never any women that WANT to do it? Women that throw their clothes off and say "get some film in that camera and shoot me baby!"
(Let me answer my own questions - because that would throw away one of the few threads of drama these movies-by-numbers have!)
There is some good acting here and the saddest thing is that Eric Roberts (big-bad-pimp) comes out of this the best simply because he is the best actor. Forget the poster he seems to be the central character!
Shame how he lost it in the end - he should have realised that there were plenty more lying, cheating, bleach blonde bimbos in the world and moved on to the next one. Like the real pimps do.
This is sad: A young life was stubbed out and she is barely in her grave before some film producers who want to dig her up in order to bury her again!
All in the name of a Hollywood quick buck. Not unique - far from it - but sad all the same.
Sex is being used to sell a film (look at the soft-core poster), but in reality it is a fraud. There is some sex-and-nudity, but it is not sexy. Indeed it is just a clichéd wages-of-sin morality play - done by old pros that that can only move the furniture about a bit in the vain hope of disguise.
(And the above isn't a spoiler, by the way, the film's own promotion went out of its way to tell you how it turns out - probably because the end is as well known as the sinking of the Titanic!)
There is nothing worse than a film born in to bondage (in the original sense of the word!) Young virgin girl is corrupted by sleaze ball who takes her dignity and, after much boring filler (which includes actually marrying her), her life.
In all films about people involved in the "adult business" the woman doesn't want to do it and only agrees to it because of some big-bad-male-pimp. Why are there are never any women that WANT to do it? Women that throw their clothes off and say "get some film in that camera and shoot me baby!"
(Let me answer my own questions - because that would throw away one of the few threads of drama these movies-by-numbers have!)
There is some good acting here and the saddest thing is that Eric Roberts (big-bad-pimp) comes out of this the best simply because he is the best actor. Forget the poster he seems to be the central character!
Shame how he lost it in the end - he should have realised that there were plenty more lying, cheating, bleach blonde bimbos in the world and moved on to the next one. Like the real pimps do.