A young Italian actress embarks on a self-destructive spree of sex, drugs and other excess while doing some soul searching to find the path for redemption.
Tag: los angeles, california
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Hanging Up
Three sisters – Georgia, Eve, and Maddy – do what they do best with life, love, and lunacy on the telephone lines that bind – when their curmudgeonly father, Lou, is admitted to a Los Angeles Hospital. After years of wild living, intermittent affection, and constant phoning, he is finally threatening to die.
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The Million Dollar Hotel
A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel.
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Next Friday
A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles, heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin, to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison.
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Memento
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife’s killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he’s going, or why.
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Plump Fiction
Four stories intersect in this violent film parody. Exterminators dress as hit men and try to protect the wife of their boss, Montello. Meanwhile, the strippers at Montello’s strip club, dressed as nuns, attempt to rob him. Tag-team wrestlers steal Montello’s briefcase, thinking its contents are valuable. Finally, Bumpkin, running to deliver a script, loses a lot of the pages.
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Star Maps
Carlos wants to be an actor. But his father, Pepe, wants him to work in the family business, that is, male prostitution. Carlos decides that he will be one of his father’s boys until he can get his foot in the door in Hollywood.
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City of Industry
A retired thief swears revenge on the lunatic who murdered his brother and partner, while going on the run with the loot they stole.
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B.A.P.S
Two wannabe Black American princesses aim to marry rich men, who will pay for their world’s first combination hair salon and soul food restaurant.
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Playing God
Stripped of his medical license after performing an operation while high on amphetamines, famed LA surgeon Dr Eugene Sands abandons his former life only to find himself crossing paths with Raymond Blossom, an infamous counterfeiter. Employed as a “gun-shot doctor” when Raymond’s associates cannot risk visiting a hospital, Eugene is lured deep into the criminal world and becomes entangled with his boss’s girlfriend.