American Gigolo

American Gigolo is a 1980 American crime drama film starring Richard Gere, written and directed by Paul Schrader. Schrader considers it one of four similar films, which he calls double bookends Taxi Driver, bookended by Light Sleeper, and American Gigolo bookended by The Walker.

When on an assignment for his primary procuress, Anne Nina Van Pallandt, he meets Michelle Stratton Lauren Hutton, the unhappy wife of a local politician, who becomes interested in him. Julians other pimp, Leon Bill Duke, sends him to the house of a financier, Mr. Rheiman, who asks Julian to physically abuse and have sex with his wife while he watches them.As Julian begins to get to know Michelle, he learns that the financiers wife, Mrs. Rheiman, was murdered. Los Angeles Police Department Detective Sunday Hector Elizondo investigates Julian as a primary suspect. Though he was with a client, Lisa Williams K Callan, on the night of the murder, the client refuses to give Julian an alibi in order to protect her and her husbands reputations. ........

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