A young aspiring screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of achieving success in Hollywood. She goes through affair after sordid affair in her attempt to write her own screenplay and have it produced.
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Cast
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| Pia Zadora | ... | Jerilee Randall | |
| Lloyd Bochner | ... | Walter Thornton | |
| Bibi Besch | ... | Veronica Randall | |
| Joseph Cali | ... | Vincent Dacosta | |
| Anthony Holland | ... | Guy Jackson | |
| Jared Martin | ... | George Ballantine | |
| Ray Liotta | ... | Joe Heron | |
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Carla Romanelli | ... | Carla Maria Peroni |
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Olivier Pierre | ... | George Fox |
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Kendal Kaldwell | ... | Joanne Castel |
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Lou Hirsch | ... | Bernie |
| Kerry Shale | ... | Walter Thornton Jr. | |
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Sandra Dickinson | ... | Nancy Day |
| Shane Rimmer | ... | Adolph Fannon | |
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Nancy Wood | ... | Janie |
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Storyline
Jerilee Randall, a simple schoolgirl living in the San Fernando Valley, dreams of becoming a famous screenwriter. 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 have it produced. Written by Chris Holland <cholland@atlantic.net>
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From Harold Robbins, the world's best-selling author, comes a world of glamour, passion, betrayal and fame. See more »Genres:
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30 September 1983 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$5,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$1,223,220, 2 October 1983, Wide ReleaseGross USA:
$1,223,220, 2 October 1983Company Credits
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Bud Weston: Sure. I hope you can spell, darling.
Jerilee Randall: D - A - R - L - I - N - G
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Written by Jeff Harrington and Jeff Pennig
Performed by Oren Waters
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Trivia
In the novel on which this movie is based, the scene where Pia Zadora's 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
Guy Jackson: Bud, this is Jerilee. She's Mr. Thornton's assistant.Bud Weston: Sure. I hope you can spell, darling.
Jerilee Randall: D - A - R - L - I - N - G
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Alternate Versions
UK video versions are cut by 3 seconds for an "18" rating. The cinema release, with the same certificate, was uncut. See more »Soundtracks
The Way You Do ItWritten by Jeff Harrington and Jeff Pennig
Performed by Oren Waters
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Even when I saw this movie at a teenager, I wondered just how ironic it was that Pia Zadora starred in a movie about an artist who slept her way to the top. As beautiful and sexy as Ms. Zadora is, even she couldn't keep this sorry-ass excuse of a movie from tanking. Not even her photoshoot for Penthouse, in which "The Lonely Lady" was promoted "back in the day," could keep this movie from tanking. The only thing that could have saved this movie? A completely different script. Give this one a miss.