This film essentially begins with an attractive woman by the name of "Brenda Baxter" (Tara Buckman) working as a stockbroker who makes a great deal of money for her investment firm because of information she receives while sleeping with wealthy businessmen. Of particular importance is an older businessman by the name of "Albert Corey" (Louis Elias) who has a number of secrets to share with her and as a result they spend a great deal of time together. Then one day, she meets a much younger man named "Alex" (Charlie Edwards) and sparks are immediately set off between them. What neither of them realize, however, is that both of them are hiding secrets from one another which, once revealed, could change their lives in a way neither of them could imagine. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this film had an interesting plot which benefitted to a certain degree by a couple of surprising twists toward the end. Likewise, I also enjoyed the performance of Tara Buckman who enhanced each and every scene with her beauty and charm. Unfortunately, most of her efforts were wasted due to rather weak direction and overall low-budget production values. That being said, while I don't consider this to be a bad film necessarily, the flaws just mentioned were much too noticeable and I have rated this movie accordingly. Slightly below average.
4 Reviews
Stinks, Cheesy = Parmesan
jojamas20 December 2004
WORST MOVIE EVER Truly deeply offensively boring, with the most outrageous and invasive background music, weak and tiresome hackneyed "plot". In a word risible.
Bought it on VCR for 49cents, you get what you pay for i guess, and I got a pretty good deal. 49 cents for a videocassette I can record over and over again...
The movie seems to be a vehicle for some astoundingly sallow sex scenes which give the movie an air of a very low budget and sexless porno.
Very much a product of the late eighties, this really has to be one of the worst movies ever made, really this is what the truly crapulent should try to be.
Bought it on VCR for 49cents, you get what you pay for i guess, and I got a pretty good deal. 49 cents for a videocassette I can record over and over again...
The movie seems to be a vehicle for some astoundingly sallow sex scenes which give the movie an air of a very low budget and sexless porno.
Very much a product of the late eighties, this really has to be one of the worst movies ever made, really this is what the truly crapulent should try to be.
Reflecting on reality.
aferdman15 October 2014
Yes, this movie is awful as it normal for D'Amato and its my favored across collection of some 2000 awful flicks. Its awful because I couldn't find decent copy, colors off etc. So what makes it my favored? Main chick! She is slut, cheesy, undress often and, in short, this is the way single men like any women. Reality in USA quite strange for any local as women became species not necessarily females. This movie is a dream, imagination and a story and D'Amato makes conflict after conflict to keep it running. It also realistically shows how we, men, chase anything with name female on it. Yes, sex part kinda not here--too bad. The flick not shy touch social aspect namely money which is name of the game in US.
Tara Buckman!
BandSAboutMovies17 December 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Tara Buckman blasted me into puberty when she showed up in the Lamborghini with Adrienna Beabeau in Cannonball Run and for that we should always remember and thank her. Well, maybe not totally into puberty - I was nine - but I finally understood why guys in movies were going crazy for women.
Frem memorably playing the mother who gets her throat slit in Silent Night, Deadly Night to roles in Hooper, Xtro II: The Second Encounter and showing up in D'Amato's Blue Angel Cafe and the unforgettable Night Killer, Ms. Buckman has won me over.
In High Finance Woman - a title so ridiculous that I often drive around yelling it at people just to get their reaction - she plays Brenda Baxter, a successful broken who sleeps with people to get insider trading information. People like Albert (Louie Elias, the older brother of James Stacy, which means he was the ex-brother-in-law of both Connie Stevens and Kim Darby; he also had a scar on his chin from a fight scene gone awry on Spartacus when Kirk Douglas drowned him a soup cauldron), her rich man who is the only mentor she's ever had.
Then she meets Alex (Charlie Edwards, whose only other role is in Hitcher in the Dark and God bless Filmirage), a poor journalist hired to write a story about her career. They fall in love, she reveals to him that she's basically a high-priced escort for her clients, they break up, she starts dating Albert, Alex proposes, she breaks it off with Albert and then finds out that - surprise! - he's the father of the man she's engaged to, so Albert pays her off to never see her son again.
Then Albert dies and his mistress gets all the money. And that would be...Brenda, which means that she may never end up with Alex until his new job sends him to interview another high finance woman who is...yes, Brenda. Oh what a tangled web we weave, Joe D'Amato.
As with all 1990s Joe movies, Laura Gemser makes a cameo and yes, she's a prostitute. But hey - free trip to America, right?
Look, some day Vinegar Syndrome is going to re-release all of these D'Amato movies for $40 in a cool slipcase in the proper aspect ratio and people are going to be losing their brains over getting them. Get in on the basement floor now, find them online and just have some fun. They're not great, but they have great synth sax, incredible overacting and amazing posters. What else do you want?
Frem memorably playing the mother who gets her throat slit in Silent Night, Deadly Night to roles in Hooper, Xtro II: The Second Encounter and showing up in D'Amato's Blue Angel Cafe and the unforgettable Night Killer, Ms. Buckman has won me over.
In High Finance Woman - a title so ridiculous that I often drive around yelling it at people just to get their reaction - she plays Brenda Baxter, a successful broken who sleeps with people to get insider trading information. People like Albert (Louie Elias, the older brother of James Stacy, which means he was the ex-brother-in-law of both Connie Stevens and Kim Darby; he also had a scar on his chin from a fight scene gone awry on Spartacus when Kirk Douglas drowned him a soup cauldron), her rich man who is the only mentor she's ever had.
Then she meets Alex (Charlie Edwards, whose only other role is in Hitcher in the Dark and God bless Filmirage), a poor journalist hired to write a story about her career. They fall in love, she reveals to him that she's basically a high-priced escort for her clients, they break up, she starts dating Albert, Alex proposes, she breaks it off with Albert and then finds out that - surprise! - he's the father of the man she's engaged to, so Albert pays her off to never see her son again.
Then Albert dies and his mistress gets all the money. And that would be...Brenda, which means that she may never end up with Alex until his new job sends him to interview another high finance woman who is...yes, Brenda. Oh what a tangled web we weave, Joe D'Amato.
As with all 1990s Joe movies, Laura Gemser makes a cameo and yes, she's a prostitute. But hey - free trip to America, right?
Look, some day Vinegar Syndrome is going to re-release all of these D'Amato movies for $40 in a cool slipcase in the proper aspect ratio and people are going to be losing their brains over getting them. Get in on the basement floor now, find them online and just have some fun. They're not great, but they have great synth sax, incredible overacting and amazing posters. What else do you want?
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