Night Club (1989)

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

This movie caused me considerable drama. I saw it donkey years ago, but had forgotten virtually everything, and the only clue was "dual personality Lisa/Beth" when I turned to I Need To Know for help last year. Thank you, Star-Core!Movies by mad people for mad people. In that category, NIGHT CLUB scores highly. It is a highly effective showcase for the beauty of Elizabeth Kaitan who appears in a dual role.Look, I am not saying it's a wonderful movie, don't get me wrong. But everybody else (except Mr. Woody Anders) is UNFAIRLY giving it the short end of the stick. This is a misunderstood movie with a misnomer of a title. It is actually a small-scale psychological thriller, with, of course, a good measure of exploitation thrown in. In the shape of Elizabeth Kaitan, who is simply adorably marvelous, and anybody saying any different is just sour-grapes envious. For Elizabeth is A+ 100% super-fine, a dream-girl straight from the Dream Factory, wow.Look, it's an unlikely movie, and admittedly unseemly, but Elizabeth Kaitan is a contender for One Of The Prettiest Girls On Film EVER!At first I thought "Shattered Glass" but this movie should have been called "Wildest Dreams" because this Nick guy is in limbo between wishful fantasy and a reality he can't keep up with. Which is why so many reviewers are irked by the wishy-washy male lead.Don't dismiss it simply because you don't understand it. This guy's pretty wife left him, and as his only keepsake of her, he is left with a videotaped recording. Being a dreamer, he turns her in his mind to his ultimate fantasy girl, then, weak-willed as he is, gets delusional, and sees his dream become reality, only this dream is not meant for love, being totally devoid of loyalty. In other words, what you see as the movie here, most of this happens in Nick's mind, Nick is coo-coo and haunted by the memories of a lost love.Well, that's my interpretation.The movie has an escalating level of being explicit in regards to on-screen intimacy. The bare breasts getting pawed, must have been an afternoon's work to get it filmed. Imagine! Decades ago, I found it harrowing to watch. While a blue movie has no emotion, this one has it in spades. Makes it all the more controversial. Forget about Sharon Stone in BASIC INSTINCT. This one gets truly explicit. I've yet to see anything quite as hands-on like that scene in a mainstream movie......and anything similar in a blue movie would lack the impact it has here. Because of Elizabeth's acting, the girl is very real.Summed up, this flick truly delivers to a flesh connoisseur's delight. Prime rib. Grade A. Succulent and juicy.I damn well bought the DANGEROUS BABES box-set to get to this title, and believe me, there are SOME REAL STINKERS in that one, and then some people have the temerity to say that NIGHT CLUB is "the worst I've ever seen?" Elizabeth is a Grade A classy beauty, and I could watch rolls and rolls more. Do read Mr. Woody Anders's review again, those are the valid complaints, yes, the male lead* gives off a weak vibe.*Then again, the male lead, Nick Hoppe, was THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE ENTIRE PRODUCTION! This is his dream here, he got it filmed, and it led to the casting of this beautiful angel- faced girl... she is pure music...........people, I may be a fool, but I know what I like!

A young couple struggle to set up a new night club based in an old warehouse. Unfortunately, they borrowed money from the mob in order to get the project moving, money the gangsters now want paid back with interest.Sadly, this is a tedious, slow paced and excessively talky drama from b-movie purveyors Crown International Pictures. It's a very basic film indeed with the limited ambition and budget pretty seriously evident at all times. It seemed to consist primarily of scenes involving lead actor Nicholas Hoppe, who is a truly terrible actor. His annoying performance drives this one into the ground and you will be doing extremely well to be in the least bit bothered about what happens to him or his club. There's little in the way of thrills to be found here besides some gangsters threatening Hoppe's character and some not very interesting soft-core sex scenes. It was so tiresome that I glazed over towards the end and zoned out so completely that the next thing I noticed was the night club was up and running and events ending sweetly for Hoppe. So in my half-asleep state, I clearly must have missed some key action that got us to this happy conclusion. I can't help but feeling I didn't miss very much though and just accepted that it all must've ended well for Hoppe somehow – at least it ended well for someone because if you sit through this I daresay you'll not feel so clever by the conclusion.

In the mid 1980s, Crown International Pictures all but stopped acquiring and releasing new product. "Night Club" is one of the few movies they've handled since then, and after watching it I have no idea why they thought it was worth the effort, unless they were looking for some kind of tax write-off. This is real minimalist filmmaking - 90% of the movie focuses on the few actors talking boring stuff in an old warehouse. There is almost no plot to be found, with the movie instead spinning its wheels again and again. Technically it's often shabby as well, with some poorly recorded audio that no one thought should be looped in the editing room. The movie does boast a number of scenes of extremely gratuitous nudity and sex, but even that gets boring quick. Although made in 1989, the movie only seems to have been released to the public a few years ago - it's easy to see why.

Moody aspiring writer Nick Taylor (the insufferably whiny Nicholas Hoppe) purchases an old warehouse that he's going to convert into a nightclub. Nick finds himself in deep trouble when several mobsters he borrowed money from begin harassing him and his loyal, but long-suffering wife Beth (a typically radiant and charming Elizabeth Kaitan) becomes fed up with his constant immaturity and inability to finish anything he starts. Writer/director Michael Keusch and co-writer Deborah Tilton unfortunately allow the muddled narrative to meander all over the place at a sluggish pace; the plot seriously lacks cohesion and ultimately doesn't add up to much. The tiresome excess of dopey dream scenes and corny music montages certainly don't help matters any. Worst of all, the extremely self-pitying and self-absorbed Nick doesn't make for an engaging main character; instead this irritating kvetch becomes more increasingly obnoxious and unappealing as the flimsy plot unfolds. The always sweet and sexy Elizabeth Kaitan provides one of the few bright spots with her bravura acting as both Beth and Nick's lusty imaginary mistress Liza. Moreover, Kaitan looks absolutely gorgeous in this film and takes her clothes off a few times. Ed Trotta contributes an amusing turn as volatile foul-mouthed hoodlum Eddie. Both Loius Di Cesare's glittery cinematography and the funky, syncopated score by Dana Walden and Barry Fasman are up to par, but all the technical slickness in the world can't stop this talky and tedious affair from being anything more than a strictly mediocre time-waster at best.