A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.
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Title: The Lonely Lady (1983)
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Walter Thornton
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Veronica Randall
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Guy Jackson
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George Ballantine
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Carla Maria Peroni
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George Fox
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Kendal Kaldwell | ... |
Joanne Castel
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Lou Hirsch | ... |
Bernie
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Walt Thornton Jnr
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Sandra Dickinson | ... |
Nancy Day
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Jerilee Randall, a simple schoolgirl living in San Fernando, dreams of becoming a famous writer. While at a party, she meets the son of a famous screenwriter. The son invites her over to his house; she accepts. They drive away with some other people, and that night, she is assaulted by one of the son's friends with a garden hose. The "friend" is interrupted in his assault by screenwriter Walter Thornton, who arrives in time to save her from an even more disgusting fate. Walter's rescue of Jerilee begins a friendship between the two, and before you know it, the two fall in love. They marry. Their marriage falls apart when Jerilee's script rewrites actually improve one of Walter's screenplays and he feels one-upped. Jerilee then goes through affair after sordid affair in her attempt to write her own screenplay and get it produced. Written by Chris Holland <cholland@atlantic.net>
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female frontal nudity | female nudity | screenwriter | screenplay | garden hose |Taglines:
From the sensual world of Harold Robbins comes the story of a woman's struggle for fame in Hollywood.Genres:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
30 September 1983 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Harold Robbins' The Lonely Lady See more »Box Office
Budget:
$5,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Walter: It means your stories vividly demonstrate the inadequacy of liberal values in the face of evil!
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In the novel on which this film is based, the scene where the Pia Zadora character accepts Best Screenplay was set at the Academy Awards and featured Jerilee Randall dropping her dress to appear totally nude with an Oscar statuette tattooed across her torso, the head of which was buried in her crotch. See more »Goofs
When Joe is in the pool, he's completely nude, but when he climbs out to assault Jerilee, he is wearing a pair of blue swimming trunks. See more »Quotes
Jerilee: [reading a review] : 'Sensitive and perceptive stories which vividly demonstrate the inadequacy of liberal values in the face of evil.' What does that mean, Walter?Walter: It means your stories vividly demonstrate the inadequacy of liberal values in the face of evil!
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How bad is it? Well, I lived in central Pennsylvania during Hurricane Agnes in 1970, the Great Blizzard of 1993, and was in northern Vermont for the Ice Storm of 1998. Someday, my grandkids will ask, "Grandpa, what was it like?" and I will say, "Well, it was bad. But not as bad as watching 'The Lonely Lady!'"
I worry that someday the world will see a major nuclear war. And if it does, the survivors will say while digging out, "That was horrible. But come to think of it, it wasn't as horrible as 'The Lonely Lady!'"
Please folks, if you want to see an '80s flick with lots of skin, see "Summer Lovers." Do NOT see this film unless watching a dwarfish leading lady getting raped and spouting unendurable dialog to a bargain basement cast is your idea of an enjoyable movie experience.