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Lipstick (1976)

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Lipstick is a cheap exploitation film pretending to make a social statement about rape and revenge. Chris (Margaux Hemingway), a fashion model is raped by Gordon Stuart (Chris Sarandon) her sister's music teacher. When he tries to rape her sister Kathy (Mariel Hemingway), Chris kills him. She is tried for the crime and defended by Carla Bondi (Anne Bancroft). Margaux Hemingway, in her film debut, is dreadful, giving a wooden performance which is only matched by that of the usually interesting

R, 1 hr. 29 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Drama

David Rayfiel

Oct 14, 2003

Paramount Pictures

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All Critics (8) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (5) | DVD (3)

It's Lifetime. It's camp. It's seriously confused, and it should speak directly to drag queens in straight relationships everywhere.

October 12, 2003 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Lamont Johnson buys wholesale into scripter David Rayfiel's dissection of the fine line between image and reality.

October 12, 2003 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine
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Audience Reviews for Lipstick

A fashion model is brutally raped by an experimental composer who is acquitted by the jury. Later she gets a chance to mow him down in the street after he rapes her prepubescent sister, too. Moves seamlessly from cynical rapesploitation to implausible courtroom drama to perfunctory revenge drama, all the while

March 18, 2008
366weirdmovies
Greg S

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This was a very interesting hidden gem from the 70s. Not your typical rape revenge, but played more like an early prototype for a lifetime movie gone graphic and creepy. People shit on Marguax Hemingway and her acting ability but I think there was nothing wrong with her at all as a leading actress and I can give you 5

July 19, 2011
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Ben Rogers

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