Alex Kubik Movies
Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, and Drew Barrymore are the stars of this Western whose main gimmick is making heroes into heroines. They all start out as prostitutes, as Cody (Stowe) shoots a drunken colonel who attempts to molest Anita (Masterson). She is about to be lynched for defending her friend when the other "bad girls" ride in and rescue her, pursued by detectives. The rest of the film follows their adventures as they get caught up in hostage situations, bank robberies, shootouts, and romantic interludes with handsome young cowboys with never a hair out of place or an unsightly smudge of Western dust. Amazingly, all four former prostitutes are able to ride, shoot, rope, and fight as well. Bad Girls is not likely to be thought of as a realistic view of how women lived in the Old West. ~ Don Kaye, Rovi
- Starring:
- Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, (more)
- 1993
In this taut drama, a couple's road trip turns deadly when they are ambushed by three fugitive cons trying to stay away from a police roadblock. They take the car off the road and end up speeding right into a very deep abandoned mine. They must then somehow make it through many confusing tunnels. Unfortunately, it's not that simple because something evil is lurking in the darkness, and it doesn't like visitors. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1991
- R
Kinky sex and violence abounds in this sophisticated soft-core exploitation thriller about the twisted relationship between a prominent LA attorney's lonely, bored wife, and a freewheeling artist who soon after they begin their affair persuades her to sleep with assorted strangers. When she figures out his sick game, she dumps him. Later a homicide detective tells the woman that he and his partner think that the artist is a brutal serial killer. Meanwhile the artist, who has videotaped her sexploits, begins blackmailing her with the threat of telling her husband. Then she learns that her husband is the mastermind behind the whole situation with the artist because he wants her to get into S&M with him. This inspires the wife to cooperate with the cops and get her revenge. Though originally rated R, an unrated version is available on video. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Linda Carol, Martin Hewitt, (more)
- 1983
- PG
In this skewed, unreal view of a woman's choice in men, almost nothing is believable. Amy (Lucie Arnaz) is a savvy, well-educated lawyer in Santa Fe who divorces her husband, an exec in the banking business, to become involved with Will (Craig Wasson) a street musician with the same iron-clad brain as her ex when it comes to women. The musician is regularly picked up by the police for his loitering, though he seems never to fully realize why they are doing this to him. Amy drops him at last, and when she finds out she is pregnant, she goes to the hospital to have an abortion -- and is introduced to a Boris Karloff-type doctor. Before anything further happens, Will comes along and forcibly carries her off to a remote, run-down building in a ghost town where he ties her to a bed intending to keep her there until she has the baby. Hard to believe, but things only get worse from here. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Lucie Arnaz, Craig Wasson, (more)
- 1981
Daisy (Catherine Bach) lands a job as a reporter for the "Hazzard Gazette". Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) schemes to take advantage of Daisy's new-found journalistic status by arranging for her to take a photograph which, with a few alterations, will frame her cousins Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Wopat) for a series of tractor thefts that have actually been pulled off by Boss' flunkies. Dottie West shows up as the latest victim of Boss' "celebrity speed trap", singing "Even If You Were Jesse James". Originally slated to air on April 10, 1981, this episode was bumped forward to February 20. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
