Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Kate Bosworth | ... | Dawn Schiller | |
Carrie Fisher | ... | Sally Hansen | |
Val Kilmer | ... | John Holmes | |
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Kim Marriner | ... | Reporter (as Kim Mariner) |
Dylan McDermott | ... | David Lind | |
Michael Pitt | ... | Gopher (scenes deleted) | |
Alexis Dziena | ... | Gopher's Girlfriend (scenes deleted) | |
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Karen LaKritz | ... | Bartender (as Karen Lakritz) |
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Steve Cox | ... | Guy at Bar |
Josh Lucas | ... | Ron Launius | |
Louis Lombardi | ... | Slim Jim | |
Franky G | ... | Louis | |
Ted Levine | ... | Sam Nico | |
Russell Sams | ... | Cherokee | |
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Chris Cioffi | ... | Letterman Meathead |
John Holmes was a legend of the porn industry and revered in circles as a stud. But in 1981, years after his successful career and star fading, Holmes was a desperate man with his own internal demons to live up to. He's estranged from his wife, holding onto a relationship with his teenage mistress, and living as a junkie in search of his next fix. But one fateful night left four people dead and John as a key suspect in one of the most grisly murders in Los Angeles. Was he partly responsible for what happened at Wonderland Avenue? Written by monkeykingma
Val Kilmer... Love or loath him, sometimes he gets under the skin of a character and pulls out a performance that makes you go 'Hey! This guy is a GREAT actor!' He did in the leather pants of Jim in The Doors and he's done it again in the leather underpants of John.
Revolving around the fall and fall of uber porn king John Holmes, Kilmer strutts to his knees as we unravel one of the biggest murder mysteries hollywood has never solved for over twenty years, with Holmes the key suspect to a brutal Manson-style slaughter.
What Kilmer does so effortlessly is exhude the low-life of the celebrity, the do anything to anyone craving that overwhelms anyone who had it and then lost it. Go see him, you'll know what I mean.