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Dead Sexy (2001)
It kept moving
First off, I want to say that if you're renting this just for the sex scenes, don't, they're not very good. However, this movie did work for me as a thriller. I think that Shannon Tweed is a good actress and it's a shame that she can't get more mainstream movies.
Shannon plays a cop investigating a string of call girl murders. All of the women were killed similarly to the way the prime suspect's mother died and all were wearing a particular shade of red lipstick. Oh and by the way that shade of red lipstick was also the mother's shade of lipstick (the lipstick is made by a small company owned by the suspect's family and he recently inherited it). Additionally, the women, including Tweed's character all look like the suspects mother and though he was only 13 at the time his mother died, he was a suspect in her death (it was ruled a suicide). It seems that the prime suspect was molested by his mother for years before her death.
Added to the mix is the fact that Tweed's partner has a vendetta against the prime suspect (he was engaged to the first call girl who died and did not submit an interview with the prime suspect to his bosses). The true murderer is not revealed until the very last scene.
Sexual Response (1992)
A plot and sex scenes too - who knew
This movie is very enjoyable. The sex scenes are so good, you can almost hear the buttons pop. Shannon Tweed (with red hair this time) plays a radio shrink named Eve, who is very good at giving others advice on their sex lives but not so good at working on her own sex life. She's married to an rich older man who's a bit of a jerk. He seems to care for her but also ignores her. In walks Edge, a grubby artist who Eve winds up having an affair with (and does she ever - those two do it on just about every stick of furniture at his place, her place and even outside). Eve enjoys being with Edge, but is concerned because Edge has an anger management problem. As it turns out Edge seduced Eve to get back at her husband who he has a grudge against (I won 't say why because that would give away the entire movie).
White Dog (1982)
It was good but...
I would not go as far to say that this is a masterpiece, but it is something worth seeing. I recently saw this movie at Northwestern University and I was inspired to find out more about the movie.
It was based on a true life account! However, the movie changes a lot of true life accounts and instead creates new characters and makes the movie a work of fiction (while keeping some true-life events).
In the book French/Russian novelist Romain Gary and his actress wife Jean Seberg (Breathless) were living in Hollywood in 1968 during the height of the civil rights movement and white liberalism. Jean Seberg is involved with a lot of civil rights groups, including the Black Panthers (though Gary does not name this group in his book). They have a young son and many pets. One night their dog gets loose and returns the next day with a German Shepard. The dog has no collar, but seems friendly enough. One day the dog tries to attack an African American pool cleaner and later tries the same with a grocery delivery man and a telegraph man (both African American).
It turns out that the dog was a police dog in Alabama and trained to be a "white dog" (trained to attack blacks). An animal trainer says that the dog can not be untrained. In both the book and the movie a black worker of the trainer named Keys volunteers to untrain the dog. However, the Keys of the movie is motivated by a desire to combat racism while the Keys of the book is an angrey black Muslim who hates whites.
In both the book and the movie the dog is killed after attacking a white person (after being trained to not attack blacks). In the book Keys has trained the dog to be a "black dog" (to attack whites - something that he smugly admits to Gary but denies to the liberal Seberg, telling her that the dog simply was trained to attack strangers). In the movie is seems like the dog has been cured but then goes to attack the white trainer (no reason is given for this but the trainer looks a lot like the original owner who corrupted the dog in the first place).
In the movie the dog is the star while in the book he is a supporting character. The main thrust of the book is black/white relations seen through the eyes of an outsider (a Frenchman of Russian descent) and the impact of his wife's white guilt and need to give funds to every civil rights organization out there including the panthers.