Beverly Hills Madam

• Directors: Everett Chambers; Harvey Hart
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Melodrama
• Themes: Prostitutes
• Main Cast: Faye Dunaway
• Release Year: 1986
• Country: US
• Run Time: 97 minutes

Plot

Faye Dunaway stars as a successful madam who is faced with difficulties from her "girls" in this made-for-TV movie. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide

Review

Although by no means as facile as Co-Ed Call Girl, Tori Spelling's subsequent entry in the don't-be-a-hooker TV-movie subgenre, this 1986 effort is notable for its star power. A post-Mommie Dearest, pre-Barfly Faye Dunaway injects 100-watt intensity into the title role, treating the morally simplistic material like it's Ibsen -- or at least Robert Towne. With Dunaway on board, the film assumes a degree of gravity that its script and production values otherwise wouldn't be able to muster. Surrounded by a gaggle of lovely ladies-for-hire (played credibly by such thesps as former Virginia Slims model Dani Minnick and Head of the Class starlet Robin Givens), the Oscar-winning actress manages to re-invigorate the tired archetype of the striving, possibly frigid, but still romantically hopeful prostitute. Full of grandstanding, catfights, and glamorous power struggles, Beverly Hills Madam doesn't exactly maintain its dignity. But it does offer fans of trashy, Jackie Collins-style fare a regal alternative to the real-life tackiness of Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

Cast

Aki Aleong; Melody Anderson - Claudia Winston; Seymour Cassel - Tony; Marshall Colt - Steven Beck; Nicolas Coster - Uncle Edgar; Donna Dixon - Wendy Nelson; Faye Dunaway - Lil Hutton; Terry Farrell - Julie Taylor; Lou Felder - John; Robin Givens - April Baxter; Michael Gregory; Gary Hershberger - Justin; John Ingle; Louis Jourdan - Douglas Corbin; Rod McCary - Senator Wells; Dani Minnick; Beulah Quo - Lil's Maid; William Marshall

Credit

Everett Chambers - Director, Harvey Hart - Director, George Jay Nicholson - Editor, Lalo Schifrin - Composer (Music Score), Beala Neel - Production Designer, Isidore Mankofsky - Cinematographer, Everett Chambers - Producer