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Half Moon Street (1986)

Half Moon Street poster
Directed by
Bob Swaim
Genre
drama film, comedy film, erotic thriller
Country
United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
R
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 61 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An American woman in London works at a policy institute by day and for an escort service by night. She gets caught up in the political secrets of a powerful client.

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What happens

Half Moon Street is a 1986 American erotic thriller film directed by Bob Swaim and starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Caine, Keith Buckley, and P. J. Kavanagh. The film is about an American woman working at a foreign research and policy institute in London who moonlights for a British escort service, becoming involved in the political intrigues surrounding one of her clients. The film was based on the 1984 novel Doctor Slaughter by Paul Theroux. Despite the source material, the film and book have distinct endings. Half Moon Street was the first RKO Pictures solo feature film produced in almost a quarter-century. The previous one was Jet Pilot, which had been released in 1957. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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