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Wild Side movie storyline. Alex Lee is a Long Beach bank executive who moonlights as a $1,500-a-night call girl for financial purposes, which takes a turn when one of her clients, Bruno Buckingham, an international money launder / handler, takes an instant liking to Alex. But Bruno’s personal chauffeur/bodyguard Tony turns out to be an undercover FBI agent who tells Alex to co-operate with him in helping to nail Bruno and if she refuses, they will nail her for prostitution.
While trying to figure a way out of the predicament she’s in, Alex takes a liking to Bruno’s attractive Chinese wife Virgina Chow who doesn’t realize that Bruno is setting her up as a patsy to take the blame for his crimes, while Alex is unaware that Tony plans to nail her anyway after he nails Bruno.
Wild Side is a 1995 film co-written and directed by Donald Cammell. It went straight to video and stars Christopher Walken, Joan Chen, Anne Heche, and Steven Bauer. There are three different versions of the film. Cammell committed suicide shortly after seeing it drastically re-edited by its producers. A “director’s cut” version by Cammell’s wife and co-screenwriter China Kong, and his editor and sometime producer Frank Mazzola, was released in 2000 and was noted by critics.
The film is perhaps best known for its graphic lesbian love scenes between stars Joan Chen and Anne Heche. The scenes proved controversial to the point that after Wild Side’s initial airings on HBO, the network subsequently chose to air a version of the film with those portions deleted.
Wild Side (1995)
Directed by: Donald Cammell
Starring: Christopher Walken, Joan Chen, Anne Heche, Steven Bauer, Allen Garfield, Adam Novak, Richard Palmer, Randy Crowder, Marcus Aurelius, Michael Rose
Screenplay by: China Kong, Donald Cammell
Production Design by: Claire Jenora Bowin
Cinematography by: Seo Mutarevic
Film Editing by: John Ganem, Frank Mazzola
Costume Design by: Alison Hirsch
Set Decoration by: Shana Sigmond
Music by: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Distributed by: Metro Tartan Distribution
Release Date: April 23, 1995
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