Billy Lux Movies

In a rushed-together effort to dramatize the extent and meaning of the growing AIDS epidemic, director Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. wrote this story in less than a week and then filmed it in less than two weeks. There are only two settings: the hospital room where Robert (Geoff Edholm) lies dying of AIDS, and the apartment where his buddy David lives (David Shachter). Geared primarily for gay audiences, the dialogue focuses on David's feelings and is interwoven with sexual nuances. There is no information on the sickness itself or its pathology, one deficiency among several that might have been eliminated if the director had taken more time to work out the story. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

A rich but bigoted man is forced to confront his ugliest prejudices face to face in this thriller. Frank Kramer (John Rubinstein) is a successful but narrow-minded attorney who comes home one day to discover that his daughter Nicole (Rhea Silver-Smith) is missing. Kramer shortly receives a telephone call from someone who claims to be holding his daughter hostage and gives him instructions to visit a pay phone in one of the most crime-ridden ghettos in New York City. Furious, but too worried not to follow orders, Kramer does as he's told and takes a call at the public phone -- only to be told to go to another phone booth in another, equally dangerous part of town. As Kramer dashes from telephone to telephone while being confronted by muggers, drug dealers, prostitutes, and angry people who simply don't want him in their neighborhood, it becomes evident that the kidnappers aren't just interested in money -- they have a personal grudge against Kramer, and they want their revenge to be psychological as much as financial. In time, Kramer discovers that he does indeed know one of the kidnappers -- Ruby (Amber Kain), the daughter of Kramer's maid, who has pulled the job with the help of her boyfriend -- and he discovers that his ex-wife is no more sympathetic to him than Ruby and her partner. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi