Lawrence Lanoff Movies

Also known as Hello, She Lied, this made-for-cable drama stars Kathy Ireland as Marsha Thomas, a professional con artist with a conscience and a surprisingly strong sense of scruples. Be that as it may, Marsha is heavily in debt to a crooked lawyer who had saved her brother Frankie (Shareef Malnik) from a prison term, thus she reluctantly agrees to participate in a scheme to cheat an innocent young woman out of a multimillion-dollar inheritance. As luck would have it, the "innocent" in question is a blonde striptease artist named Jean Ivers (Audie England) -- and in order to learn all she can about Jean to impersonate her for the purposes of the scheme, Marsha is obliged to get a job at the same strip club where Jean works. Rather surprisingly, Kathy Ireland doesn't bare all in this R-rated opus, though we see plenty of co-star Audie England and the rest of the "peelers." Miami Hustle premiered July 21, 1996, on the Showtime channel. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Returning from a photo shoot in India, a photographer does not realize until it is almost too late that she carries with her the spirit of the powerful Hindu goddess Kali, the mother/destroyer/lover of the great god Shiva. With plenty of mystical overtones infusing the many nude scenes, this erotic thriller follows the photojournalist and the goddess on a strange journey. Soon after Karin's return, her lover Matthew Christianson notices some disturbing changes. First, she has with her a statue of Kali that she doesn't remember packing; she does however remember having a powerfully spiritual experience. Later, Karin grows sexually insatiable and also starts worshiping her Kali statue. Anyone who says bad or disrespectful things about the goddess ends up dead. Matthew is at a total loss until he speaks with the mysterious Dr. Samudaya who explains that while in India, Karin was enchanted into a Kali cult, the goddess is inside her and wants to live on the mortal plane. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Shannon Tweed brings her usual physical attributes to this soft-core mystery thriller about one psychologist's ethical misadventures. Tweed stars as Rebecca Mathis, a sex therapist with a troubled past. As a college researcher, she used a sexual stimulant called Extremis on a student test subject, killing him. Now Rebecca is a respected professional, though her wheeler-dealer husband Tom (Jan-Michael Vincent) is making her life miserable, pressuring her for money and carrying on an affair with her niece Elaine (Brandy Sanders), who works as Rebecca's assistant. When the death of a patient brings hard-boiled Detective Nick Sharkey (Gary Hudson) to her door, the aroused Rebecca is soon involved in a passionate affair with the veteran cop. When Tom ends up in legal trouble, he exposes Rebecca's continued experimentation with Extremis, but the courageous Nick volunteers to act as a human guinea pig and once and for all remove any doubts about Rebecca's guilt in using the substance. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

A young Ohio man moves to Los Angeles in search of a career and a girlfriend in this romantic comedy, whose action centers on the '80s singles scene. Eddy (David Packer) heads to California after his cousin, Skip (Scott McGinnis), promises him a job in the ad biz, but Eddy ends up with the unenviable task of handing out flyers on the beach. Turning his focus from the professional to the romantic, Eddy joins a video dating service and endures a series of inaccurate match-ups that drive him to adopt wilder and wilder guises for his video ads. Along the way, he meets Peggy Kellogg (Bridget Fonda), an employee of the dating service, but she's always got her boyfriend on her arm. Frustrated over Peggy's inaccessibility and the dead-end job he's unfairly been stuck with, Eddy finally decides to take a gamble -- to be himself in the yuppie fantasia of L.A. The soundtrack to You Can't Hurry Love features singer Phil Collins' cover of the '60s song from which the film takes its name. Kristy McNichol, Charles Grodin, and Sally Kellerman all appear in cameo roles. Kellerman previously appeared in writer/director Richard Martini's previous outing as a screenwriter, Three for the Road. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi