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The Lonely Lady is a 1983 film directed by Peter Sasdy based on the book written by Harold Robbins. Some consider it one of the worst films ever made mainly because of its cliché storyline. Its plot and bad acting won it a Razzie.

Plot summary

Jerilee Randall (Pia Zadora) is a simple schoolgirl with horrid pigtails living in San Fernando who dreams of becoming a famous writer. She meets the son of a famous screenwriter, Walter Thornton (Lloyd Bochner), at a party. She goes home with the son, along with some other friends. That night she is attacked by one of the "friends" in a gruesome rape scene involving a phallic hose nozzle. Walter arrives only after the violation has taken place and saves her from further attacks. A friendship develops between them and they soon marry. But the marriage falls apart when she rewrites one of his scripts and improves it greatly (albeit by adding merely one blinking word, "Why?"). Jerilee goes through several affairs while trying to get her screenplay produced, including with an Italian lesbian gorgon who leaves Jerilee's hair in a frightful tizzy afterwards. The most precious scene of all is Jerilee's nervous breakdown, which borders on the Plan-9 psychotic as no one but Pia can over-over-emote while staring at a clunky QWERTY keyboard and envisioning all her drugged bedmates coming in for her en masse.

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