Susan Scott Movies
Acclaimed filmmaker Robert Altman (Short Cuts, Nashville) brings National Public Radio stalwart Garrison Keillor's long-running radio program to vivid life on the big screen in a intricately woven backstage fable centering on the final performance of a fictionalized version of his variety show. As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program A Prairie Home Companion somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, MN. Week after week, hangdog host Garrison Keillor serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the likes of popular country duo Yolanda and Rhonda Johnson (Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin) and singing cowboys the Old Trailhands (Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly). This is one show where the under-the-line antics are nearly as entertaining as the program itself, though, and in between the efforts of down-on-his-luck private dick and backstage doorkeeper Guy Noir (Kevin Kline) to discover the true identity of a mysterious blonde (Virginia Madsen) and aspiring teen singer Lola (Lindsay Lohan) to find her true voice before a live audience, there's still plenty of fun and mystery to be had at the old Fitzgerald before the final curtain falls on A Prairie Home Companion. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep, (more)
- 1987
- R
A trio of high-school students are helped by a wealthy counselor at the request of the principal in this forgettable comedy. Johnny (Eric Douglas), Joseph (Marlon Jackson), and Susan (Susan Scott) all benefit from the help of the concerned counselor Michael Drake (Richard Horian). ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Eric Douglas, Marlon Jackson, (more)
- 1985
Left home alone while everyone else is busily occupied, Tom Willis (Franklin Cover) begins to question his own attractiveness and appeal. Those questions are "answered" when the sister of Mr. Bentley's latest girlfriend lavishes attention on the hapless Tom. This leads to a sexy dream sequence in which Tom is surrounded by a "harem" of genuine Playboy Playmates. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, (more)
- 1981
- R
Armed with a pistol, a writer (Catherine Spaak) breaks into the home of a successful publisher (Fernando Rey) to convince him to publish her erotic manuscript. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi
- 1980
Notorious Italian sleaze director Joe D'Amato (Antropophagus, Porno Holocaust) takes the helm for this lusty tale of an aging couple who encounter cannibalism and black magic while attempting to rekindle their sex life during a trip to a secluded island paradise. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- 1977
Euro-sleaze merchant Joe D'Amato probably thought he was bringing something new to the exploitation field by fusing elements of the long-running softcore Emmanuelle series with the cannibal subgenre foisted on the viewing public by such directors as D'Amato and Umberto Lenzi, among others. The end product is merely excruciating tedium punctuated by occasional kinky sex in the first half of the film and cheap, gag-inducing special effects in the second. The threadbare plot involves the investigations of a glamorous journalist (Laura Gemser, then-current star of the Emmanuelle series, though not actually playing that character here) into the cannibal proclivities of a certain Amazon tribe. After viewing documentary footage of cannibals torturing, executing and devouring their enemies, she apparently still wants to learn about such behavior firsthand and journeys down the Amazon with a research team to find the tribe in question. Naturally, the entire group falls into the cannibals' clutches, leading to endless messy scenes of people being carved up, impaled, disemboweled, split in half and (of course) eaten. Too gory for softcore fans and too dull for gorehounds, this is basically a film with no target audience whatsoever. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi
- Starring:
- Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, (more)
A rogue cop and a merciless crime lord take their bloody battle to the streets in director Massimo Dallamano's brutal poliziotteschi. When the battle between the determined lawman (Marcel Bozzuffi) and the relentless criminal (Ivan Rassimov) goes public, there's no telling how things will turn out as the bullets fly and the frightened citizens run for cover. Prolific soundtrack composer Stelvio Cipriani (Death Walks in High Heels) provides the hard-driving, funk-infused score. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- 1974
- R
When a series of adulterous women begin to turn up dead, a police officer (Farley Granger) must hunt down their crazed killer. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi
Pretty Edwige Fenech spends most of her time either naked or dazed in this tiresome tale of devil worship from the director of I Corpi Presentano Tracce di Violenza Carnale. Set in England, the film stars Fenech as a woman who is in therapy for nightmares related to the long-ago murder of her mother. Offering a cure for her woes, a neighbor takes her to a sabbat, where she is seduced and tattooed by the crazed leader of a satanic cult. Soon, the cult is commanding her to kill for them, and a strange man keeps following her around with the stiletto used to murder her mother. It doesn't make much sense and seems to drag on forever, but true Euro-buffs will love it anyway just because of the cast featuring George Hilton, Ivan Rassimov, Nieves Navarro (a.k.a. Susan Scott), Dominique Boschero, and Carla Mancini. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
