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Two businessmen are hired to steal secrets from a rival, and decide to use a beautiful call girl to do so.Two businessmen are hired to steal secrets from a rival, and decide to use a beautiful call girl to do so.Two businessmen are hired to steal secrets from a rival, and decide to use a beautiful call girl to do so.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations
Kimmy Suzuki
- Asian Girl #1
- (as Naoko 'Kimmy' Suzuki)
Phil Neilson
- The Welshman
- (as Phil Nielson)
Roberta Orlandi
- Sex Show Woman #2
- (as Roberta Orlan)
Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Hosaka Executive
- (as Ryûichi Sakamoto)
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Did you know
- TriviaDuring the making of the film, Asia Argento made the documentary Abel/Asia (1998) about director Abel Ferrara.
- GoofsAfter Fox and X meet with Hosaka, they are talking while walking up to a restaurant. Fox's mouth does not match what he is saying at all. And when X responds, his mouth isn't even open.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Distinguished Man: Come on, you know this better than anybody, right? There's a full-scale subterranean war being waged for every shred of information. And the corporate suits are killing each other off by the thousands each year. I mean it's like the holocaust in the 20th century. Everybody knows about it, and nobody says anything about it. And government is as culpable as any corporation.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Cinéma, de notre temps: Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty (2003)
- SoundtracksApproaching the Portal
Written by Gene Newton
Performed by Gene Newton
Published by Bluestar Communications
Featured review
Grotesque limping
With a solid plot basis (William Gibson short story), two excellent actors (Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe) and an interesting director (Abel Ferrara) this movie could have well turned out to be a real hidden gem. Dario Argento's daughter posing as the female lead doesn't have any other qualification for her role than an Italian accent and a nice body -- no screen presence, no femme fatale charisma, no "edge" -- and the budget has obviously been someone's lunch money for a week, but those things alone would not have done too much damage. However, there are some bigger issues with this film.
In the beginning of the movie there's way too much singing in the bars, and it's all bad. I've been to karaoke bars where the performers have been significantly more talented. All of them. No kidding. And near the end the movie falls apart, mainly thanks to way too many flashbacks -- they are not of just one or two key scenes, but of umpteen, in a peculiar "here's the movie again in case you missed it" fashion. They are annoying as such, and as a result you probably lose your focus and, consequently, your grasp of the plot. What you end up having instead of a real movie is a 90 minutes long artsy collection of insubstantial sleazy moving pictures with nudity.
In short, the first half of the movie does not get your hopes up too high, yet the latter half is disappointing. Kind of an achievement, I suppose. For better or worse, Walken's cool charisma and Argento's numerous nude scenes may still keep you awake through the whole thing. 4/10
In the beginning of the movie there's way too much singing in the bars, and it's all bad. I've been to karaoke bars where the performers have been significantly more talented. All of them. No kidding. And near the end the movie falls apart, mainly thanks to way too many flashbacks -- they are not of just one or two key scenes, but of umpteen, in a peculiar "here's the movie again in case you missed it" fashion. They are annoying as such, and as a result you probably lose your focus and, consequently, your grasp of the plot. What you end up having instead of a real movie is a 90 minutes long artsy collection of insubstantial sleazy moving pictures with nudity.
In short, the first half of the movie does not get your hopes up too high, yet the latter half is disappointing. Kind of an achievement, I suppose. For better or worse, Walken's cool charisma and Argento's numerous nude scenes may still keep you awake through the whole thing. 4/10
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $21,521
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,147
- Oct 3, 1999
- Gross worldwide
- $21,521
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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