Crimes of Passion Page #4

Synopsis: The thirty year-old hard-worker Bobby Grady is married with two children to the frigid Amy Grady and their marriage is in crisis. Bobby is invited to work the night shift at a fashion design studio whose owner believes his talented and introspective designer Joanna Crane is selling his designs to competitors. Bobby accepts the job to make money and please Amy with a bathtub and follows Joanna after hours. He discovers she has a double life, working as a fifty-dollar hooker called China Blue in the red light district and practicing kinky sex with her clients to satisfy their fantasies. Bobby becomes obsessed by China Blue and when the true thief is found, he has sex with her and they have a crush on each other. Meanwhile the insane preacher Rev. Peter Shayne (Anthony Perkins) decides to save Joanna's soul and stalks her everywhere.
Director(s): Ken Russell
Production: New World
  3 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
36%
R
Year:
1984
107 min
569 Views


Come on. Let's go.

Give dad a big hug.

Bye.

Good night.

Hello?

Yeah, walt pierson here.

Walt. Bobby grady.

How you doin'?

Great. You? Yeah, i'm just fine. Thanks.

Um, listen, uh,

you'd asked me once before...

about doing some nighttime

surveillance for you.

Yeah. Think you might

still be interested?

Yeah. Well, n-n-no, i was- i was

wondering, is the offer still good?

Yeah. You gotta

work nights, though.

No problem.

Mob after you?

No, i could use the money.

I think i got something for you. You do?

Yeah. Gotta work

nights, though. Terrific.

No, that's great. You didn't

think i had the nerve, did you?

No, i didn't.

Neither did i.

I, uh- i guess it

just comes with poverty.

Well, come on in,

and we'll talk about it.

Yeah, well, thank you very much,

and you take it easy, okay?

Yeah, right. See you

tomorrow. Fine. Bye.

Great. You tell them jokes, and i'm

the wicked witch who sends them to bed.

Well, i'll put 'em

to bed.

So you can keep 'em up half

the night with your stories?

I think it's good

for the imagination.

Theirs or yours?

I'm gonna be doing some

tracking for walt pierson.

So, that means you can

make room for that hot tub.

Well, you act like I-

forced you, and i don't

even want it anymore.

What do you want?

Do you know?

And you didn't force me.

Maybe i'll, uh, do

the magic act at the party.

You know, for laughs.

What do you think?

Whatever you want.

Damn the living

it's a lovely life?

Silver silverware?

Where is the love?

Oval swimming pool?

Where is the love?

Damn the living

it's a lovely life?

It's a lovely

a lovely life?

Welcome to it

it's a lovely life?

It's a lovely?

Life?

Oh, bobby, come on. Stop it.

We just got the cable.

Walt pierson speaks

very highly of you.

I have a lot of respect for walt.

His word's good enough for me.

Well, i'm damn good

at what i do, mr. Bateman,

but i'll only take a job

if i can do it right.

As long as you keep it quiet. I don't

want to turn this into a major event.

Well, i've always been a

pushover for industrial espionage.

I'd like to help you.

Just tell me what the facts are.

I'm one of the largest manufacturers of

ladies' sportswear outside of new york.

But i'm falling behind

for the first time in 20 years.

Last week's orders

were at an all-time low.

I have reason to believe there's

someone in my organization...

selling patterns

to one of my competitors.

I want you to follow her.

Who is she?

A young woman's who's been

with me about two years.

Very talented designer. Hell of

a future, if she hasn't blown it.

What makes you think

it's her? I don't know.

Gut feeling. Something about

her. I'll point her out to you.

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Barry Sandler

Barry Sandler (born February 23, 1947 in Buffalo, New York) is an American screenwriter and film producer. His career has spanned several decades, with the 1980s being his most prolific. The openly gay Sandler is perhaps best known for writing the 1982 film Making Love, the first mainstream Hollywood film to deal seriously with issues of homosexuality and coming out. Sandler discussed Making Love in the 1995 documentary film The Celluloid Closet. In addition to his successful writing career, Sandler also teaches screenwriting at the University of Central Florida and serves as one Artistic Director to Outfest, a gay and lesbian film festival in Los Angeles. He is the recipient of the GLAAD Media Award and the Outfest 2002 Gay Pioneer Award for Courage and Artistry, and was named by The Advocate as one of the most influential gay artists in America. more…

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