Summaries

Robert's wife is divorcing him for gambling etc. A strip club owner offers him work redesigning his club. Robert befriends a dancer there, who has premonitions.

A divorced architect, fighting for custody of his son and battling addictions to alcohol and gambling, works off his debt to a sleazy strip club owner. There he meets a transsexual dancer whose ability to see the future will change his life forever.

A struggling architect, being sued for divorce by his wife and struggling with booze and gambling, finds work remodeling a friend's strip club, the Paradise. There he meets a transsexual stripper who is bothered by accurate, but extremely violent visions of future events. The increasingly violent visions start including the architect, who doesn't believe in the prophesy. One who does however is a psychiatrist who is seeing both the stripper and the architect and is sleeping with the ex-wife. He uses the prophecies for his own financial gain. Finally the scenes from the vision move into reality amidst many plot turns.—John Sacksteder <[email protected]>

Details

Keywords
  • dark comedy
  • transgender
  • oceania
  • transgender woman
  • southern hemisphere
Genres
  • Thriller
  • Crime
Release date Apr 29, 1999
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin United States New Zealand
Language English
Filming locations Auckland, New Zealand
Production companies Miramax Midnight Film Productions Limited

Box office

Gross US & Canada $2838
Opening weekend US & Canada $1983
Gross worldwide $2838

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 45m
Color Color
Sound mix Stereo
Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1

Synopsis

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