Egyptian Theatre (Venue Partner)
6712 Hollywood Blvd
323.466.3456
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- When
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Wednesday Feb 3, 2010 (7:30pm)
- Where
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Directions: The Egyptian Theatre is just east of Highland Avenue between Las Palmas Avenue and McCadden Place. Metro Stop: Hollywood & Highland
- Price
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$11
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“'80s ladies and cult-film stars converge at tonight's sneak-preview screening of Stuck!, a campy celluloid tribute to women's prison movies. Susan Traylor, John Waters darling Mink Stole, Easy Rider star Karen Black, and former Go-Go Jane Wiedlin play cellmates in Steve Balderson's "devastating" tale about "shattered innocence" and just a little jailhouse lesbianism.”
Julian Hooper, Flavorpill
Stuck!, 2010, Dikenga Films, 95 min. Director Steve Balderson's homage to film noir women-in-prison films faithfully reproduces the genre with a modern, tongue-in-cheek twist, with all the hallmarks of a classic prison movie: a wrongly accused heroine, hard-boiled dames, diabolical alliances, forbidden love, cat-fighting cuties, a sadistic warden, and corrupt prison guards. Daisy is an innocent young woman framed for killing her mother. Condemned by the press and the public, Daisy is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by hanging. This jazzy, finger-snapping, broads-behind-bars film is a throwback to another era, with terse Tennessee Williams-style verbal sparring, non-stop action and enough bad-girl jailhouse hi-jinks to make the audience lose the distinction between good and evil. Discussion following with Karen Black, Mink Stole, Susan Traylor, Jane Wiedlin, Pleasant Gehman, Stacy Cunningham and director Steve Balderson. Audience members will have a chance to take a souvenir mug shot!
