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The Corporate Ladder
Subject: The Corporate
Ladder with LMS
From: William A.
Arvola <arvola@gte.net>
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volume99/213
Date: Wed, 28 Apr
1999 00:21:08 -0500
Here's a short review of the movie "The Corporate Ladder" with Lisa Marie Scott.
Title: The Corporate
Ladder
Directed by:
Nick Vallelonga
Produced by:
Brad Kevoy, Steve Stabler, and Jeremy Kramer for Playboy Entertainment
Group, Inc.
Written by: Greg
Mellot, Christopher Reed, and Nick Vallelonga
Starring:
Anthony John Denison, Kathleen Kinmont, Talisa Soto, Jennifer
O'Neill, Meilani Paul, Lisa Marie Scott, and Ben Cross.
Rated: R, primarily
for nudity and sex; quite a bit of Kathleen, all of Lisa Marie
briefly, and Meilani topless.
Newly released for rental at Blockbuster.
Opening vignette: Executive and secretary [long dark tresses] work late in a darkened office. The executive waxes amorous with the result being rape. The secretary belatedly defends herself, pushing her assailant through the window to his demise.
Synopsis: Junior advertising executive [the "hero" of our drama, played by Anthony John Denison] hires a suspiciously over-qualified all-too-perfect new assistant [Kathleen Kinmont]. His former assistant [Talisa Soto], now wife(!), tries to settle into the domesticity of pregnancy. Senior executives [Jennifer O'Neill and Ben Cross] secretly plot a company takeover and the simultaneous downfall of our hero. Lisa Marie Scott plays mournfully oppressed and exploited "I really need this job" Kyoko, the assistant, and unwilling plaything, of the second of our plotting senior executives. Our hero, with considerable help from his new assistant, lands a major account with a manufacturer of women's jeans, their daring ad campaign centering around a dusky-hued beauty played by Meilani Paul.
Nice-guy charm and bad-guy coercion are counterpointed as junior and senior executives respectively succomb to the active and passive temptations of their assistants. Dusky beauty gets in on the action with bad-guy, to her chagrin, but then tries for a piece of nice-guy, but he's a, er, "nice guy" [presumably a nice guy doesn't cheat on his wife with *two* girls.] Nice-guy turns into Nicer[but not Nicest]-guy when he less than amicably breaks off his intimate relationship with his assistant but pointedly declines to confess his sins to his wife. The now rejected assistant vows revenge...
Bad-guy and assistant Kyoko round up some rather nefarious dirt on the past of our hero's too-perfect assistant but foolishly tip their hand. Things get brutal as Miss Perfect clubs Bad-guy to death with a champaign bottle in his own pool, framing our hero for the deed. His only alibi is his wife but she hangs near death in the hospital after a domestic "accident." Her oppressor gone, Kyoko now shows some spunk and presents our hero with the location of exculpatory evidence. Our newly revealed villainess anticipates our hero's desire to access this evidence and a fatal confrontation ensues. Our hero wakes, his wife wakes, and all is well. Will our hero take this opportunity to reward his heroines with a bit of confession and a new job?. Of course not, this isn't Disney; this is The Corporate Ladder.
Comments: Kathleen Kinmont is one hot number, wickedly seductive. Her screen presence drips with pure evil, why can't our hero see it? I confess to rooting for her character all the way to the end. The hero was one of those pretentious so-called nice guys who showed his true colors time and again. I found Lisa Marie's docile apologetic Japanese girl routine well, er, routine, and even a bit unconvincing. Just not my fantasy, I guess. Her "breaking out of her shell" scene did have some sparkle to it, perhaps due to its contrast with earlier scenes. The TV-ad sequences with Meilani Paul are nicely done, clearly showing a PB video influence.
If Kathleen Kinmont is your cup of tea, see this flick for sure. Otherwise it's merely worth a look, as cute as Lisa Marie is.
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