Bitch Slap (2009)

Three bad girls travel to a remote desert hideaway to steal $200 million in diamonds from a ruthless underworld kingpin.

Director:

Rick Jacobson

Writers:

Rick Jacobson (poet laureate), Eric Gruendemann (poet laureate)

Stars:

Julia Voth, Erin Cummings, America Olivo

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Julia Voth	...	Trixie
Erin Cummings	...	Hel
America Olivo	...	Camero (as Ameríca Olivo)
Michael Hurst	...	Gage
Ron Melendez	...	Deputy Fuchs
William Gregory Lee	...	Hot Wire
Minae Noji	...	Kinki
Kevin Sorbo	...	Mr. Phoenix
Lucy Lawless	...	Mother Superior
Renée O'Connor	...	Sister Batril
Dennis Keiffer	...	MacDaddy
Scott Hanley	...	Black Ice
Mark Lutz	...	Deiter von Vondervon
Debbie Lee Carrington	...	Hot Pocket
Zoe Bell	...	Rawhide (as Zoë Bell)

Storyline

When three curvaceous babes, stripper Trixe, business executive Hel, and the feisty ex-con Camero, arrive at a desert hideaway to steal a stash of diamonds from an underworld kingpin, things quickly spiral out of control. Allegiances are switched, truths are revealed, criminals are unmasked and nothing is quite what it seems as the fate of the world is precariously balanced among this trio of sexy femmes fatales.

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Plot Keywords:

desert | diamonds | stripper | stolen diamonds | breaking a man's penis | 

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Taglines:

It hurts so good.

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for brutal violence, strong sexual content and language throughout, and brief drug use

Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site [jp]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 November 2009 (Finland)

Also Known As:

Bitch Slap - Le superdotate

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$12,254 (USA) (8 January 2010)

Gross:

$17,365 (USA) (22 January 2010)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bombshell Pictures, IM Global

Technical Specs

Runtime:

109 min 109 min (unrated) 106 min (R-rated)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The desert scenes where the majority of the locations were shot appear to be hot and arid, when in fact filming was done in mid and late March when it was still winter and the temperate during the day seldom rose above 60 F degrees in the sun, with wind chills making the outdoor temperature even lower. The cast, including the three female leads, spent most of the time between takes literally shivering under heavy winter coats that the wardrobe department brought along for just that.

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Goofs

Camero has dark blond hair throughout the film except for one brief shot when her hair is dark black when she is about to drop a cigarette lighter to set Trixie on fire. It was an insert shot filmed months after production ended when America Olivio dyed her hair for a different film role that she took immediately after filming on this picture ended.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Narrator: [voice-over] All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack we must seem unable. When using our forces, we must seem inactive. When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away. When far away, we must make him believe we are near. Hold out baits to entice the enemy; feign disorder and crush him. Sun Tzu. The Art of War. 380 BC.

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Crazy Credits

"The characters displayed in this photoplay are fictitious. No really... It's all just make believe! Any similarity between our story and the classic and timeless works of William Shakespeare is purely coincidental."

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Connections

Featured in Trailer Failure: Extraordinary Measures, Crazy on the Outside, and Bitch Slap (2009)

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Soundtracks

"Throw the Towl Down"
Written by Steve Condon and Dave McManus
Performed by Stank E. Digitz

User Reviews

Modest, unpretentious, and very likable

Bitchslap is a young unpretentious movie, no big names, no big budget. It has a story to tell, which involves six lovely breasts, and it tells its story with tightly focused exuberance, excitement, and a certain sense of wonder. There's none of that old Hollywood cynicism, no gratuitous manipulation of the viewer, no wandering, no missteps.

We're promised three lovely ladies who alternately fondle or beat the daylight out of each other and every passing male, and we get that. In loving slow motion, with dramatic explosions, bullets, and music, gallons of water, blood, and gasoline, and dialog that takes cinematic intellectualism out into the back yard and beats it to a pulp with a heavy shovel.

You can watch any movie on many levels. Don't go into this one expecting a complex plot, deep characterization, or philosophical questions. It's a cartoon based around breasts that does not demean women. This by itself should satisfy many of us. However, it is an intellectual movie in some ways, especially in its treatment of gender.

The tight focus and almost perfect presentation makes me think the team behind this really enjoyed making the movie and will give us more of the same, probably more sophisticated and ambitious, in the future.