Heat (1972)

A ex-child star (Joe Dallesandro) is working as a male prostitute while trying to revive his acting career. He hooks up with a washed up aging actress (Sylvia Miles) who falls in love with him although he's only interested in what she can do for his career. Written and directed by Paul Morrissey (TRASH) and produced by Andy Warhol. Conceived as a softcore porn parody of SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950), the film is amusing at first but there's no where to go after we "get it" and the film meanders in the second half till it just runs out of steam. It's not as fun as Morrissey's outrageous previous film TRASH, there's a rather sad exploitative feeling to it. The film seems improvised while Sylvia Miles does well as the has been star (hey, she is a two time Oscar nominated actress), Dallesandro seems adrift. The film's best performance comes from Andrea Feldman as Miles' crazy bisexual daughter but apparently Feldman was wacko so how much is acting and how much is the film exploiting her? She committed suicide at the age of 24 before the movie came out. With Pat Ast and Lester Persky.