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Michael Pollard looks suitably seedy for his role which pretty much sums up the unfulfilled early promise of his career, and everyone else plays it pretty straight ahead.
made on a shoestring, we dive headfirst into the seedy sleazy underworld of London life, the pimps, hookers and general lowlifes that crawl through the gutters of this world... we meet a downtrodden prostitute and an 11 year old girl (a fabulous performance by Georgia Broome) on the run, which is not obviously clear why at first.
The only HERO, Marg Helgenberger, is sort of ignored; and the seedy character of Ann-Margret is the one who gets her way all the time, flaunts the legal system, gets several innocent people killed, and gets away with it because she is an older woman with abuse issues.
We see the seedy side of life yet we're given little explanation why Stahl and his friends are so belligerent against hope, without any imagination or the drive to get out and succeed.
Leaving aside the tired and seedy clichés of the death row genre, which this film wallows in, and the unpleasant evocation of the crucifixion, this film is just plain inaccurate, a bit-part player's parasitic exploitation of her tiny role in a bigger story.
Danielle De Luca stars as Diana, a naive young woman who ends up working in a seedy strip joint in a town where game hunting is an obsession and women seem to be disappearing at an alarming rate.
He lands a job as a grill cook in a seedy Villa Crespo café where the owner (Enrique Liporace) is happy to skirt Argentinean immigrant laws in order to secure cheap labor.
This film has a seedy, dark, futile feel to it, and underlying its sick,twisted plot - the deaths are executed with little remorse or feeling.
Based on the rambling, seedy novel by James Elroy, which I read and enjoyed very much over a decade ago, this filmization of the novel fails in its casting, structure and set design.
Al Pacino stars as Bobby, a grungy heroin addict, who's living a seedy existence in NYC.
In that era, New York's Time Square, where the film took place, was seedy and run-down.
Wes Block (Clint Eastwood) is a New Orleans Homicide detective who's investigating a series of sex murders involving prostitutes and the further he delves into this seedy world.
It could have been a really good movie, but it's dragged down by the rest of the cast - particularly the overacted, one dimensional "mad artist", the seedy atmosphere and the corny score.
The story itself was dark and seedy, almost.
Driven to obsession, he follows the trail of the pickpocket through the seedy underworld of post-war China, in an attempt to regain his honor.
This is a gritty, seedy, film noir that can be ranked with the best American Noirs from the 40s.
It's a small world, because not only have Manu and Mehdi met through Mehdi's well-heeled wife, Sarah (a friend of Adrien's); Mehdi also minds the seedy area where Manu lives with Julie and consorts with the local whores.
Seems that there's a young woman that must obtain money for her young brother's operation and she gets involved with seedy elements to do so.
Credit should be given, also, to the set design with it's seedy candy apple red painted cinder block walls, stark bare light switches and yards of metal conduit lining long hallways off of which open rows of cribs which we come to realize housed all sorts of perversions.
However, after the Code was strengthened, perverts and the curious went looking for seedy material and found it in educational films that were really just excuses to show boobs and talk about sex and drugs.
See "Mean Streets" if you want a slice of life from the seedy section of town.
George Miller is a timid, gentle man whose failure as an artist drives him to attempt suicide by leaping off the roof of his seedy hotel.
Shirley takes being abandoned by her father and living with seedy strangers pretty casually.
When I first viewed the series, in 1985, I thought it had good acting and production value but was a bit cheesy in its portrayal of some of the more seedy aspects of the reputed Borgia family skeletons.
Oh the first film was trashy, seedy and truly in bad-taste and that's what made the dementedly serious piece entertaining.
This one, filmed in chilly blues and grays, is just as seedy and depressing.
What lifts it out of the B-movie pit is the imaginative way the seedy world of trashy novels from the 50s is recreated on screen; the smartly executed shifts between fantasy and reality, past and present; Jenny Wright's appealing and intelligent heroine; and finally, the director's genuine feeling for the atmosphere of time and place.
Moody and atmospheric, this seedy thriller rates as one of Clint Eastwood's most audacious and praiseworthy 80's films.
While this film is not as sleazy as SLAVES IN BONDAGE or GAMBLING WITH SOULS, two earlier films that featured star Wheeler Oakman as a pimp, ESCORT GIRL is slickly made and well-acted by a wonderful cast, and while it doesn't "show anything", it does have a seedy, dirty feel to it, even though it's not unlike a studio-bound, low-budget Grand National crime drama.
The seedy Berlin night life is not overly useful and a bit tawdry, but it passes as just a spicy interlude.
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