The plot concerns a middle-aged actress' life as an understudy in an off-Broadway play.

The actress who gets top billing in the movie is Oscar nominee Melissa Leo but the main role actually belongs to an even more unknown actress named Andrea Powell, an attractive blonde who was pushing 40 when the film was made.

Leo plays the star of the play in the movie who is a whacked out diva. In the movie play, she gets raped. The actor who plays her rapist gets ill so that actor's understudy takes over the role and Leo is enamored by him to the point that she enjoys doing the play's rape scenes night after night with him and eventually makes him her boy toy. Later on, Leo's character thinks the actor is becoming more intense in the rape scenes to get back at her in her divaishness so Leo quits in mid performance. Powell takes on the role for that one night.

Meantime, while Powell is waiting endlessly for her break to come, she breaks up with her fiance and becomes the girlfriend of the rapist/actor who happens to be almost half her age. One night while playing around, he acts out the play's rape scene with her. Powell thinks he's just kidding around. Instead he rapes her for real. There's a cutaway from the actual act, but when it's over, you see the dismay and realization in her face that she's been sexually assaulted. And that's how the movie ends. For once the rapist wins.

Yay!

As sexploitation, the movie could just as easily be shown on the Lifetime channel. However, they do repeat Leo's "rape" in the play. And if you just want to enjoy a good small independent film, this is worth a look.

In addition Andrea Powell is easy on the eyes. Here's another pic of her to see what I mean. She's 44 years old so it's unlikely she'll have much of a movie career at this point, but she is somebody with a good face, body and talent.