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A devoutly Calvinist businessman from Michigan ventures into California's adult entertainment industry, where he desperately searches for his runaway teenage daughter.
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"George C. Scott stars in this Paul Schrader vehicle as Jake VanDorn, a man of a different, more simple era whom finds himself thrust into the seamy underbelly of the pornography business after his daughter, Kristen, goes missing. The police are no help and the sleazy private investigator he hires (played superbly by Peter Boyle) is not much better. Jake tries hopelessly to keep his unvarnished soul intact as he looks for his daughter. This is a well-acted, well written, well directed film that kept me riveted...to a point. That point being the horrible studio required cop-out ending that force..."
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When location director Paul Pav was scouting porno shops for the film, he was stonewalled. Pav remembered, "That was the worst experience of my life. They're all scared to talk to you. If you say to a manager that you want to film in his porn shop, he says, 'Get out!' Then you have to go and find the owner of the shop. That's the most difficult thing. They're often lawyers and doctors. I'd have to leave my name, then someone would call me back. Often I wound up talking to people behind closed doors."
📖 Synopsis
A devoutly Calvinist businessman from Michigan ventures into California's adult entertainment industry, where he desperately searches for his runaway teenage daughter.