Merchants of Venus (1998)

Directed by

Len Richmond

Genre

romantic comedy

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 18m

Rated

R

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American woman moves to Los Angeles and starts working in a sex toy factory. She gets involved with her new British boss and he helps her make an adult film.

lightheartedplayfulquirkyupbeatromanticgentleunassumingwhimsical

What happens

Merchants of Venus is a romantic comedy film starring British actors Michael York and Prunella Gee. It was written and directed by Len Richmond, writer of the award-winning British comedy series Agony and the less successful Split Ends. The film was released in the US in March 1998 and was given a straight to DVD release in the UK on 1 September 2001, renamed as A Dirty Little Business. In some countries, it was released under the title Good Vibrations. The film is certified as a 15, runs for 74 minutes, and original music is provided by the band Erasure who performed the track Love Affair. The band's lead singer Andy Bell has a small role in the movie as the director of an adult film that Gee's character is playing in. The movie was actually filmed in Len Richmond's mother's own sex toy factory in Los Angeles. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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