A drama based on the life of Jesse James Hollywood, a drug dealer who became one of the youngest men ever to be on the FBI’s most wanted list. Events spiral out of control when a drug dealer threatens Jake Mazursky, an explosive head case who owes him money; Jake responds by breaking into the dealer’s house; in revenge, Jake’s little brother is kidnapped and killed. Olivia Mazursky (Sharon Stone) puts on weight as she fails to cope with the tragedy.
Nick Cassavetes apparently wanted to capture the real-life weight problems Susan Mark Markowitz suffered as she attempted to cope with the death of her son at the hands of Jesse James. He said: ‘The woman gained a bunch of weight . . . She had an extremely tough time with the events that happened, a really difficult time.’ Whatever, the intention, Sharon’s performance achieved real bathos. And I don’t understand why the image quality suddenly became so bad.
Tom Woodruff Jr & Alec Gillis of Amalgamated Dynamics were special makeup designers; Eryn Krueger was makeup department head; Gracie Atherton was makeup artist (Sharon Stone).