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Title: The Lonely Lady (1983)
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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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female frontal nudity | female nudity | casting couch | screenwriter | garden hose |Taglines:
Hollywood is a world of glamour, it is the world of Harold Robbins' "The Lonely Lady" and nothing. See more »Genres:
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EnglishRelease Date:
30 September 1983 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
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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Written by Charles Calello and Roger Voudouris
Performed by Roger Voudouris
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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 Randall: [while accepting a major award] I don't suppose I'm the only one who's had to fuck her way to the top!See more »
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
It's Gonna Be a Long NightWritten by Charles Calello and Roger Voudouris
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Immediately after renting and watching this movie several years ago, a friend and I decided that it defined the absolute zero on the movie scale. There was nothing about the movie that could have been done worse than it was. To this day we still rate movies, even very bad ones, by how much better than "The Lonely Lady" they are.
A long time ago I saw an interview with Eleanor Perry, who wrote the screenplays for, among other things, "Last Summer" and "Diary of a Mad Housewife," and she related that she had been asked to write a screenplay for the Harold Robbins' book "The Lonely Lady." She said that she sent in a treatment and it was rejected because they didn't think she understood the difficulties of a female screenwriter in Hollywood. She then said "I think they got someone else to write it." The interview was filmed before the movie was released. She died in 1981, and I bet the first thing she did on arrival in heaven was personally thank God for saving her from involvement in the result.