Stars: Candice Daly (Heart of Darkness), Richard Steinmetz (Heartburn, Slaves of New York), Barry Dennen (The Shining, Superman III). Eve Black (Daly) travels to Tinseltown of the future from Kansas and finds she's a long, long way from home. Arriving just in time for her sister's death, Eve goes undercover as "Dorothy" in an evil corporate empire that churns out "neuro-vid" TV commercials (MTV-influenced sight and sound extravaganzas with Orwellian cue cards, such as "Gender is Slavery" and "Desire is Entrapment"). Our modern Dorothy goes down a rather tawdry yellow brick road, beginning with a stint on the dance ticket floor (she dances with slumming cult director Paul Bartel--Eating Raoul, Death Race 2000--who delivers the film's best line: "I'd rather taste your earwax again.") Next, it's on to the Twilight Club for Dorothy, where the girls bump and grind on a runway made up of live video monitors (the most technologically stylish sequence in the film). Eventually, Dorothy is chosen as the new "neuro-vid" girl and ultimately gains an audience with this film's Wizard, the Major (Dennen), a world-class geek who is hiding a very nasty secret. Decent acting (with the notable exception of Richard Steinmetz as Detective Rodino in a performance that should be showcased in the Petrified Forest), a sinister atmosphere, and a pervasive sense of sexual paranoia add up to an okey dokey thriller. [Note: Liquid Dreams was entered in the International Critics Week Competition last year at the Cannes Film Festival, meaning...well, not much. It doesn't take a whole lot to get the Cannes crowd's meter running. Recall Barton Fink, which these people considered our age's Mona Lisa.] Audience: Could appeal to the serious sci-fi folk, though it's being pushed more as an erotic title.
Liquid Dreams
Sci-fi erotic thriller, Academy Entertainment, 1992, color, 92 min. $89.95 (2-pack--$149.90), available in R-rated and unrated versions (nudity, language) Video Movies
Liquid Dreams
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