Sex, Love and Cold Hard Cash (1993) (TV)

Director:

Harry Longstreet

Writer (WGA):

Harry Longstreet (written by)

Release Date:

12 May 1993 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller

Tagline:

A love story with larceny on its mind.

Plot:

An ex-con whose share of a robbery disappeared joins forces with deluxe edition call-girl in order to...

Plot Keywords:

Prostitution | Mafia

Cast

JoBeth Williams	...	Sarah Gallagher
Anthony John Denison	...	Douglas Colson
Stephen Rowe	...	Caldwell
Joel Swetow	...	Spears
Henry Brown	...	Dickson
Bradford English	...	Warden Harris
Carolyn J. Silas	...	News Reporter
Don Fischer	...	Barman
Tracy Arnold	...	Purser
Brian Brophy	...	Wine Steward
Maggie Egan	...	Ship's bar singer
Lucy Vargas	...	Elena
Richard Burns	...	Shower Guard
Bruno Spandello	...	Surveillance cop
Blumen Young	...	Security Guard

Runtime:

USA:86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:16 | USA:PG-13

Company:

MCA Television Entertainment (MTE)

Skip this one

A total by-the-numbers thriller made by no-names and semi-no-names. The plot is typical for a cheap thriller. The acting is awful and I don't think one single actor in the whole production pulled his or her weight and gave even a mediocre performance. The characters are clichés, and several minor characters are dumb stereotypes. The pacing is bad, and the film drags so much that it seems like the director figured that the audience would sit through anything. The cinematography is daft. The film has nothing new to offer to the genre, and is merely a rehash of various old story lines, that are done before, and much, much better. The director(who's incidentally also the writer) has done nothing big before(or so it would appear; I haven't really studied his filmography hard, though), apart from a single episode of X-Files, which is probably why the direction is so bad. The dialog is badly written and the delivery is even worse. The whole thing is so thoroughly predictable and boring that it's seriously hard to explain. One could compare it to following a soap opera while staring at a spot on the wall, but that would probably be unfair, both to the soap operas and the spots on the wall. All in all... just don't bother. I recommend this to no one, as it has no actual value, and you'll feel like you've just wasted an hour and a half on it, which could have been spent much better, by doing something far more constructive, like, say, clipping toenails or clicking a pen repeatedly. Stay away. Stay far away. 1/10