Beverly Hills Madam

1986

Drama

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 22%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 22% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 469 469

Director

Harvey Hart Photo
Harvey Hart

Top cast

Seymour Cassel Photo
Seymour Cassel as Tony
Michael Gregory Photo
Michael Gregory as
Faye Dunaway Photo
Faye Dunaway as Lil Hutton
Aki Aleong Photo
Aki Aleong as
720p.WEB
889.5 MB
960*720
English 2.0
NR
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by stevetbc 7 / 10

B-movie genius

La Dunaway proves what Pauline Kael said about her in 1981 after the release of "Mommie Dearest" : she would never shake Joan Crawford. She's aching to bring out those wire hangers, and the line readings are pure camp Crawford. However, this gift of a performance will live in infamy, as she portrays a brothel madame in Beverly Hills, with hookers like Donna Dixon and Robin Givens in her stable. Feast your eyes on the most incompetent hookers in film history -- one of them actually gives up drugs and alcohol. While the filmmakers seem to attempt to portray the miserable life of a prostitute, I want to hitchhike to Los Angeles and give it a whirl. This brilliant film is succeeds as a painful reminder of the 1980s fashions we have long since left behind -- I Love the 80s indeed. I have to run now, because I'm going to watch it again. Thank you, Miss Dunaway.
Reviewed by JasonDanielBaker

Cheeseball Soap Opera That Could Be A Bad Cable TV Series Today

The title character is one Lil Hutton (Faye Dunaway) who runs a high class out-call service catering to the kind of wealthy and powerful men who can afford $1000 a night for discreet encounters with very beautiful women who ask few questions and tell no tales.Her very small roster of working girls includes some very flawed and damaged young women. Law student Wendy (Donna Dixon), jilted alcoholic Claudia (Anderson), snarky dancer (Robin Givens) are joined by an Amazon of a Nebraska farm-girl Julie (Terry Farrell) whom Lil has rescued from the streets of Los Angeles.Lil's roster seems far too small for the kind of agency that can pay for her pampered lifestyle I should think unless the women were working around the clock instead of for $1000 a night.Logically there would have to be more women in a real agency. That is something which could easily have been provided by bringing in peripheral call girl characters filled by actresses from central casting. All I'm asking is for a few short extra scenes with a few women then perhaps the mere mention of names of other women employed by the agency.The dialogue is unbelievably clunky and without an ounce of originality. It is so poor I wondered whether or not the director just told the actors to say whatever they wanted as it would be dubbed in a foreign language later.Going from poor melodrama in it's lacklustre first half to tawdry soap opera in its second half and featuring thoroughly unlikeable characters from lead to supporting roles there is very little that is appealing about the actual story here. Even with its short run-time it exhausts whatever real interest this story may have had early on and then drifts along to its implausible conclusion.This exploitation drama with provocative subject matter was sanitized for TV to the point of being silly. Overall this was a huge missed opportunity to explore the lives of people in a high-risk and unconventional profession. They tried to turn it into a kind of romance with Jackie Collins style novel touches.Faye Dunaway was at one time an A-list Hollywood star who appeared in highly regarded and commercially successful films like Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Chinatown (1974) and Network (1976). But she was apparently such an unbelievable pain to work with for so many, for so long that fewer and fewer people wanted to work with her by the early 1980s.Few seem to remember what a breathtakingly beautiful woman Melody Anderson was. Those that think Canadians aren't sexy either never met her or don't know that she is Canadian. I don't believe she ever got the kind of shot at A list stardom she deserved in Hollywood.The very appealing Terry Farrell would go on to fame on TV shows like Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Becker.Robin Givens had her first role here before going on to stardom in TV and feature films.
Reviewed by HotToastyRag 4 / 10

Let's all take to the streets!

Poor Faye Dunaway! Seriously, what happened to her? She made A-tier dramas and showed serious acting chops in the 1970s, and then in the mid-1980s, she was relegated to lousy television movies. We can all point our fingers at Mommie Dearest, but was that really all it took? That movie was silly and melodramatic, but Faye put her heart into the performance. She shouldn't have been punished eternally for making fun of Joan Crawford.Beverly Hills Madam was beneath her. Did she have it in her contract that she got to keep all her costumes and she needed a wardrobe infusion? Did she sign on before reading the script? With films like this and Pretty Woman, it's a wonder every woman in the 1980s and 1990s didn't quit their jobs and take to the streets. It glamorized prostitution beyond words. All Faye's "girls" were happy workers paired with clients who adored them. One showed kindness towards an elderly widower who wished to spend the night with a lookalike of his wife. Another had a "regular" who sent her diamond jewelry, fur coats, and first-class airline tickets to meet him wherever he was. A newcomer to LA, Terry Farrell, sees the wealthy, carefree lifestyle, and she requests to join Faye's gang. Faye loads her arms with literature on fine art and politics, teaches her poise, gives her a day of pampering at the salon, and dresses her in beautiful clothes. Terry giggles away while getting her transformation. It's crazy. She's not getting ready for the prom. She's getting ready to become a high-class call girl. Her first assignment? To de-flower an eighteen-year-old boy on his father's yacht.The ridiculous message aside, the script is absurd. It's full of trite situations and melodramatic scenes we've seen a hundred times. Faye looked beautiful and put together, but that's really all you can say about this tv movie.
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