
Drama

Helen Mirren , John Shea , Paul Angelis , Murray Salem , Jenny Runacre , Daniel Chasin , Patti Boulaye , Charles Yates , Marika Rivera ,
Hal Galili , William Hootkins , Rupert Frazer , April Olrich , Sandy Ratcliff , Jill Melford , Janet Amsden , Vanessa Furse , Linda Polan

Matthew Chapman
IMDB

95

1980

Beaty (Dame Helen Mirren) is a

itute working out of a high-class London cabaret where Emory (John Shea) is a technician. They begin an affair encumbered by
her job, his lack of money, and their pasts: She has an abusive former lover, the father of her ten-year-old son and possibly her pimp, Alex (Paul Angelis), a
strong-arm gorilla type fresh out of prison also arrives, needing a place to stay. Alex is clearly a brutish psychopath who threatens Beaty and Emory's future.
Emory's wife died in questionable circumstances and he has a shady friend, Max (Murray Salem), who shows up with a scheme for making lots of money. Beaty and
Emory want to sort things out, but the odds are against them. Life is no cabaret.