I haven't seen the movie yet but in almost every review I read the last 10 minutes of the film is mentioned and they say how sad and indelable it is, but they never actually say what happens. What does happen in the last 10 minutes of the film, I know it's not the murder cause the movie is done in a flashback.
shareThe last ten minutes IS about the murder....It lays out what actually happened
In a sort of timeline manner...detail by gory detail from evidence collected at the crime scene.And from interviews with the people involved.
Here's a little trivia: the director Dorothy was involved with at the time of her murder was Peter Bogdonivich. And He ended up marrying Dorothy's sister Eileen in real life.
didn't Peter Bogdonivich have a heart attack either just finishing making this or durning?
shareAt the end of the movie tonight, the person hosting the movie said that the murder scene was shot in the actual apartment where the real murder took place...
shareI knew that the outside of the house was the real place where they filmed the barbacue scene on the balcony, but I didnt know they shot inside the actual house as well, So all the scenes inside the apartment was the actual place she was murdered, like the bedroom and all? Creepy and low in my opinion, a little disrespectful, I didnt mind the outside of the house but inside is cryptic.
sharei think they should have filmed in the actual room, to bring the true emotion
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What are you talking about? Peter didnt make this!
shareI read Hefner had a stroke...
shareIt's explained at 35:11 the fighting between Bogdonivich and Hefner ~ http://www.biography.com/people/dorothy-stratten-11735768
shareDS's sister's real name was Louise. She was married to PB for 13 years before their divorce in 2001. He was 29 years older than she was, marrying her when she was just 20 years old and he 49.
PB also wrote the book: The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten (1960–1980) that was published in 1984.
We went to LA on vacation in 2004 and the guy that runs the Findadeath website took us on a tour of famous spots. We went by the Stratten house. It's on a corner (almost a tri-corner, like times square)really IS right next to & below the busy freeway.It also kind of just "pops up" in a neighborhood of one story homes (or maybe it was just I recognized it the minute it came into view & it stood out) It is definitely the house of the b-b-q and in real life, looks like the rooms would have to be very small and the whole bit with the doctor roommate is like "how would they work that in this small place?" The pictures we took that day are on the Findadeath.com site under Stratten, Dorothy. Thought we would feel an ominous, creepy feeling being there, but no.
(I've been kinda obsessed with this story, too, since seeing Star 80 years ago)
Meme-29, you and me both. I first saw this incredible film when it premiered in 1983 at the Century Theatre in my home town of Hamilton, Ontario. I was 15yrs old at the time. After viewing the film I spent the next few weeks at the library trying to dig up as much info on Dorothy, Paul and anyone connected to them. The fact that Dorothy was Canadian had little to no effect on my mania for info. I felt connected to the characters because of the wonderful job Bob Fosse did directing and also the stand out performance by Eric Roberts. I have seen literally thousands of films in my 38yrs but this one definitely left its mark on me. Were it that I were stranded on an island and could only take 25 films with me, STAR 80 would most assuredly be among them.
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