A Los Angeles vice cop, caught between her undercover role as a sex worker and her personal relationships, is thrown into a web of murder and deceit.
Acting
Russell's slippery, unpredictable turn—never sure where act ends.
Direction
Locke's final film: messy, personal, fascinatingly compromised.
Director
Sondra Locke
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Locke financed this herself after her infamous Warner Bros lawsuit, making it a rare fully female-directed, female-starred neo-noir of its era.
The film bombed so hard it ended Locke's directing career, yet gained cult status for its genuinely unhinged final act where reality collapses.
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