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9 February 1996 (USA) more
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A documentary crew from the BBC arrives in L.A. intent on interviewing Heidi Fleiss, a year after her... more | add synopsis
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Sewer diving with Nick more (10 total)
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(Credited cast)| Nick Broomfield | ... | Narrator | |
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| Madam Alex | ... | Herself | |
| Corinne Bohrer | ... | Actor | |
| Mike Brambles | ... | Himself | |
| Cookie | ... | Himself (voice) | |
| Elisa Fleiss | ... | Herself | |
| Heidi Fleiss | ... | Herself | |
| Jason Fleiss | ... | Himself | |
| Jesse Fleiss | ... | Himself | |
| Kim Fleiss | ... | Herself | |
| Paul Fleiss | ... | Himself | |
| Shannon Fleiss | ... | Herself | |
| Gaby | ... | Herself (as Gabby) | |
| Daryl Gates | ... | Himself (Los Angeles Chief of Police) | |
| Ron Jeremy | ... | Himself | |
| Ivan Nagy | ... | Himself | |
| Victoria Sellers | ... | Herself | |
| Susie Sterling | ... | Herself | |
| Jim Wakefield | ... | Himself | |
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Heidi Fleiss: I just realized there were young pretty girls around and a lot of rich men. more
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Intrepid documentarian Nick Broomfield looks to uncover the real story behind the notorious Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss in this fascinating, repellent film.
Broomfield is, as usual, totally fearless, and uses his oh-so upright British bearing ("I'm doing a piece for the BBC")to mask the fact that he's a complete gutter-crawling slimebag, able to hold court with the sleaziest characters imaginable. At first, Fleiss won't grant Broomfield an interview (she is arrested for violating her probation shortly after he arrives in Los Angeles) so he pursues her friends and associates with tunnel-vision tenaciousness.
All the neon slime is on display here: pimps, hookers, adult film stars, drug dealers, crooked cops, shady figures of all shapes and sizes. Broomfield goes after them all without fear.
The two people he spends the most time with are Madam Alex, a creepy old-world crone from Hungary who controlled the Hollywood flesh trade before Heidi stole it from her, and Ivan Nagy, a smiling, brutish pimp-drug-dealer-movie-director (also Hungarian) and Heidi's ex-boyfriend who also (supposedly) was the one who narc'd on her to the police. The two spend their time on camera telling wild, half-baked stories and making accusations against each other that criss-cross and contradict so often that eventually it becomes clear that they ARE ALL lying to some degree.
Fleiss does finally give Broomfield an interview and she comes off quite well. Intelligent, lively, and a keen observer of human nature, she clearly is no dunce, although its tough to believe she could actually go toe-to-toe with either Nagy or Alex.
In the end, because he's on screen so much and is such a persistent presence, "Hollywood Madam" is more about Broomfield and his relentless desire to get at the truth than anything. At times, one can only marvel at the audacity of this guy: whether badgering known drug-dealers and pimps until they all but plead with him to GO AWAY, or making what amounts to crank calls to an underworld enforcer (and possible ex-Moussad hit man) Broomfield walks through it all with a zeal it is hard not to admire.