Quiet Days in Hollywood
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| Directed by | Josef Rusnak |
| Written by | Robert G. Brown Josef Rusnak |
| Produced by | Jörg Bundschuh |
| Starring | Hilary Swank Chad Lowe Natasha Gregson Wagner |
| Cinematography | Dietrich Lohmann |
| Edited by | Christopher Koefoed |
| Music by | Harald Kloser |
| Distributed by | Kick Film |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | English |
Quiet Days in Hollywood (also known as The Way We Are) is a 1997 German drama film written by Robert G. Brown and Josef Rusnak. Rusnak also directed. The movie features Hilary Swank, Chad Lowe, and Natasha Gregson Wagner.
Plot
The plot features a series of interlocking stories. Each vignette is introduced with a character that had sex with someone in the previous segment. The movie opens with a seventeen-year-old prostitute, Lolita (Hilary Swank) who hangs around outside movie premiere with another teen prostitute in the hopes of getting a picture of her idol, movie star Peter Blaine (Peter Dobson). After her friend is forcibly dragged off by a jealous boyfriend, Lolita wanders around by herself in the streets of Los Angeles. Then she ends up performing a sexual favor for a man who ends up knocking her unconscious.
The man, a young African American named Angel, is engaged in questionable criminal activities. He later ends up trying to flee Los Angeles after he makes a major mistake during a drug deal. He takes Julie, a young waitress (Meta Golding), with him. After they have sex in a stolen car while driving through a car wash, Julie rethinks her plans to escape with Angel. After she notices that a car filled with men has been shadowing them, she runs out of the car. Angel is killed by the men.
Sometime later, Julie is working in an upscale restaurant as a waitress. She waits on Richard (Chad Lowe) who ends up sexually assaulting her in the men's room. In the next vignette, Richard has a tryst with Kathy (Natasha Gregson Wagner), his boss's wife. Kathy has a non-exclusive relationship with her husband, Bobby (Bill Cusack), who has a girlfriend on the side. Bobby is sexually propositioned by Patrick (Stephen Mailer), a sexually aggressive and drug addicted gay man, who is the closeted Blaine's boyfriend. The last vignette features a grief-stricken Blaine seeking sexual favors and companionship from Lolita, who is still sporting a bruise from her encounter with Angel.
Cast
- Hilary Swank as Lolita
- Peter Dobson as Peter Blaine
- Meta Golding as Julie
- Chad Lowe as Richard
- Natasha Gregson Wagner as Kathy
- Bill Cusack as Bobby
- Stephen Mailer as Patrick
