HEAT

HEAT

HEAT

Director: Paul Morrissey
Feature film | USA | 1972
103 min | Mono

36th Hof International Film Festival
2002

Young and beautiful Joey is staying at the Tropicana Motel in Hollywood, famous for hosting Hollywood “Has Beens”. Some years ago, he was the teen-star of a TV Western series and is desperately waiting for some job as a rock singer, lying around the swimming pool of the Motel. Torn between the fat Motel owner who barters his living expenses for hot sex in the afternoon, a young lesbian and various young gay men, he meets an aging ex-movie star who convinces him to come and live with her her Hollywood villa on the hill. But she has a hard time keeping Joey for herself …