Storyville (1992)

Synopsis: Cray Fowler (James Spader), the scion of a powerful and wealthy political family from St. Alban's Parish, Louisiana, has his budding career put in jeopardy when he's videotaped in an erotic sexual situation with a Vietnamese martial arts instructor at the Happy Dragon Studio. When the... Cray Fowler (James Spader), the scion of a powerful and wealthy political family from St. Alban's Parish, Louisiana, has his budding career put in jeopardy when he's videotaped in an erotic sexual situation with a Vietnamese martial arts instructor at the Happy Dragon Studio. When the woman's father is found fatally stabbed, she is arrested and Cray returns to being a trial lawyer and defends her against a prosecuting attorney, who is also his ex-lover. But during the trial a plot is uncovered that involves an unsavory and shameful secret in his family's history, which he decides to bring out in the open. Based on the novel JURYMAN by Fran Galbally and Robert Macklin, STORYVILLE was directed and co-written by TWIN PEAKS co-creator Mark Frost. [More]