Screen legend George C. Scott (Patton, The Day of the Dolphin) gives a strong, sensitive portrayal of a deeply religious Midwestern businessman whose daughter, while on a church-sponsored outing, runs away from home. He hires an oddbalI detective (Peter Boyle, The Brink’s Job), who learns that the daughter has been making cheap sex fiIms. When the father reaIizes that he can no longer trust the detective, he decides to hunt for his daughter himseIf. Posing as a porno fiIm producer casting a new movie, he gathers clues with ferocious determination. FinaIIy, with the heIp of a prostitute (Season HubIey, Vice Squad), he locates his daughter. But is it too late? Paul Schrader, writer (Taxi Driver, Raging BuIl) and director (Blue CoIlar, American GigoIo), presents a powerfuI, unfIinching gIimpse into the dark, bizarre worId of the pornography industry. Featuring cinematography by Michael Chapman (lnvasion of the Body Snatchers) and music by Jack Nitzsche (The Exorcist). |