Merchants of Venus (1998)

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Country: USA
Genres: Comedy
Release: 1998-03-01
Director: Len Richmond
Writers: Len Richmond
Language: English
Stars: Michael York , Prunella Gee , Nancy Fish , Beverly D’Angelo (I) , Brian Cox (I) , Troy Donahue , Michael J. Pollard , Arthur Hiller , Stephen Nichols , Andy Bell
Runtime: 78 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Merchants of Venus , Merchants of Venus (United Kingdom) , Oi emporoi tis Afroditis (Greece) , A Dirty Little Business (United States of America) , Merchants of Venus (United States of America)
Plot: Alex Jakoff (Michael York) is a Russian immigrant looking for work in the USA when he finds a job as a stock boy in a sex-toy factory. The factory's elderly owner Mrs. Eppy (Nancy Fish) sees Alex as a nice, but lonely guy. So, she tries setting him up with her friend Catherine (Prunella Gee) an aging adult film star. Alex is smitten with Catherine on sight, but she is reluctant to commit to any relationship out of her profession. Meanwhile, when Eppy's business is threatened with being closed down, Alex decides to buy the place with money from his family whom are in the Russian mafia. But when the business fails anyway and his family of thugs want all their money back, Alex is forced to make some drastic decisions to stay alive.
IMDB:tt0179970