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Barry Sandler (writer)
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19 October 1984 (USA) more
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Her name is China Blue. She is watched. She is worshipped. And, she must remain a mystery. more
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A sportswear designer leads a double life as a hooker named China Blue. One of her clients, a divorced man... more | add synopsis
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A lurid fantasy porno movie - and a masterpiece more (35 total)

Cast

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Kathleen Turner ... Joanna Crane / China Blue

Bruce Davison ... Donny Hopper
Gordon Hunt ... Group Leader

Dan Gerrity ... Group Member #1

Anthony Perkins ... Rev. Peter Shayne
Terry Hoyos ... Group Member #2

Annie Potts ... Amy Grady
Vince McKewin ... Group Member #3
Deanna Oliver ... Group Member #4
Patricia Stevens ... Group Member $5
John Laughlin ... Bobby Grady
John G. Scanlon ... Carl
Janice Renney ... Stripper

Stephen Lee ... Jerry
Pat McNamara ... Frank
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Ken Russell's Crimes of Passion (Australia)
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107 min | USA:112 min (director's cut)
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Jeff Bridges was offered the role of Grady, but was not cast over salary disputes. more
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China: Although we may run out of Pan Am coffee, we will never run out of TWA tea. more
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Referenced in The Last Days of Ki (2005) more
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IT'S A LOVELY LIFE more

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7 out of 9 people found the following review useful.
A lurid fantasy porno movie - and a masterpiece, 25 March 2005
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Author: Martin Bradley (MOscarbradley@aol.com) from Derry, Ireland

Ken Russell's masterpiece has cult movie written all over it. A lurid, extreme sex-and-violence fantasy porno-movie, it is also a brilliant satire on the American way of sex, (the 'home life' scenes could have come out of "Desperate Housewives"). In the bravest and best performance of her career, Kathleen Turner plays the mystery woman who is Joanna, prim fashion designer by day and China Blue, the fantasy hooker to end all fantasy hookers, by night. In an alternative universe her performance would have won her the Oscar for Best Actress. Her nemesis is Anthony Perkin's psychopathic preacher with the razor-sharp dildo ("Save me from the foul-mouthed kooze with the motor-driven ass"). His is the kind of performance that goes beyond mere acting into some kind of crazy stratosphere all it's own; (the ending is lifted directly from "Psycho").

The film has it's downside. Rick Wakeman's score is over-emphatic and Tom Cruise lookalike John Laughlin may have Cruise's good looks but none of his talent. It's a terrible piece of acting but in a movie this OTT it actually works. Barry Sandler's script is brilliant.

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