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8 March 1985 (USA)
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Subverisive but flawed femme/feminist noir
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Sandy McLeod | ... | Christine |
| Will Patton | ... | Mark |
| Richard Davidson | ... | Louie |
 | Luis Guzmán | ... | Jose |
| Nan Goldin | ... | Nan |
| Lee R. Tucker | ... | Projectionist |
| Peter Rizzo | ... | Driver |
| Mark Boone Junior | ... | Porn Customer / Business Manager (as Mark Boone Jr.) |
| April Andrew | ||
| Suzanne Fletcher | ||
| Peyton Green | ||
| Cookie Mueller | ||
| Norma Angelica Rodriguez | (as Norma Rodriguez) | |
| Sally Rodwell | ||
| Jerry Delamater |
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Errors in geography: The Variety Photoplays Theatre was actually on 3rd Avenue and 14th Street, some thirty blocks away from the Times Square area.
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The combination of Kathy Acker as writer and Bette Gordon as director should have signaled a potent brew, but sadly what we get here is a brilliant idea cut down savagely by the film's low-budget budget. Tracing the seedy, crime-ridden porn theater world of Times Square in the early 80s from a what was a post-feminist perspective should have pushed the boundaries of what could be explored in feminist cinema but here the effect is to disengage the viewer from the convoluted action. Every technical aspect from the sound to the acting feels shabby and weak and frankly underwhelming but there is an underground post-Factory (Warhol not WalMart) passion at work that just about saves this oddity. Acker's polemical script presents feminist intervention/investment in the patriarchal world of pornography with some gusto and ambiguity at times but eventually the direction dilutes itself in a haze of revisionist sexual politics, thanks to the inconsequential scripting and unfocused lensing.