A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
Acting
Mick Jagger's surprisingly sinister pimp swagger.
Direction
Hickenlooper's glossy dread in every frame.
Writing
Screenplay by Rupert Holmes—yes, the piña colada guy.
Director
George Hickenlooper
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mick Jagger took the role because he wanted to play a villain after decades of rock stardom; he reportedly improvised several of Luther's nastiest lines.
The film bombed in 2001 but found minor cult status among writers who recognized Byron's humiliating cocktail-party conversations as documentary realism.
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