Former child star Joe Davis, reduced to living in a cheap Hollywood motel while struggling for acting jobs, is lusted after by nearly every woman he meets, including Jessica Todd, a tightly wound feminist who has recently come out as a lesbian. When Jessica's mother, Sally, an emotionally needy has-been actress, meets Joe, she moves him into her enormous, tacky mansion as her new boy toy and attempts to get him acting work.
Acting
Sylvia Miles' unhinged, desperate diva — Oscar-nominated for 14 minutes of screen time.
Production
Morrissey's guerrilla Hollywood satire shot in real decaying mansions.
Costume
Tacky opulence everywhere — caftans, gold lamé, poolside disaster.
Director
Paul Morrissey
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Andrea Feldman was a real Warhol superstar who died by suicide two years later; her unscripted, volatile energy here is uncomfortably authentic.
Paul Morrissey made this immediately after 'Flesh' and 'Trash' — completing his unofficial Joe Dallesandro 'lowlife' trilogy that defined 1970s underground cinema.
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