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''Star 80'' is a 1983 biographical drama about the life and death of ''Playboy'' Playmate Creator/DorothyStratten, who is murdered by her controlling husband Paul Snider, [[MurderSuicide who later kills himself]]. The film was the last to be directed by Creator/BobFosse and stars Creator/MarielHemingway as Stratten and Creator/EricRoberts as Snider.
The story begins with Paul, a small-time hustler, wooing 18-year-old Dorothy after meeting her working at a Dairy Queen. Seeing her as a meal ticket as well as a lover, he has a professional photographer take nudes of her and sends them to ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}''. After getting a positive response the couple moves to Los Angeles, where Hugh Hefner (Cliff Robertson) gives Dorothy a job as a bunny and eventually names her Playmate of the Year for 1980.
The story begins with Paul, a small-time hustler, wooing 18-year-old Dorothy after meeting her working at a Dairy Queen. Seeing her as a meal ticket as well as a lover, he has a professional photographer take nudes of her and sends them to ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}''. After getting a positive response the couple moves to Los Angeles, where Hugh Hefner (Cliff Robertson) gives Dorothy a job as a bunny and eventually names her Playmate of the Year for 1980.
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''Star 80'' is a 1983 biographical drama about the life and death of ''Playboy'' Playmate Creator/DorothyStratten, who is murdered by her controlling husband Paul Snider, [[MurderSuicide who later kills himself]]. The film was the last to be directed by Creator/BobFosse and stars Creator/MarielHemingway as Stratten Creator/MarielHemingway, Creator/EricRoberts, and Creator/EricRoberts as Snider.
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The story begins withPaul, Paul (Roberts), a small-time hustler, wooing 18-year-old Dorothy (Hemingway) after meeting her working at a Dairy Queen. Seeing her as a meal ticket as well as a lover, he has a professional photographer take nudes of her and sends them to ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}''. After getting a positive response the couple moves to Los Angeles, where Hugh Hefner (Cliff Robertson) (Robertson) gives Dorothy a job as a bunny and eventually names her Playmate of the Year for 1980.
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''Star 80'' is a 1983 biographical drama about the life and death of Playboy Playmate Creator/DorothyStratten, who is murdered by her controlling husband Paul Snider, [[MurderSuicide who later kills himself]]. The film was the last to be directed by Creator/BobFosse and stars Creator/MarielHemingway as Stratten and Creator/EricRoberts as Snider.
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''Star 80'' is a 1983 biographical drama about the life and death of Playboy ''Playboy'' Playmate Creator/DorothyStratten, who is murdered by her controlling husband Paul Snider, [[MurderSuicide who later kills himself]]. The film was the last to be directed by Creator/BobFosse and stars Creator/MarielHemingway as Stratten and Creator/EricRoberts as Snider.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: Fosse adapted the screenplay directly from a ''Village Voice'' article investigating Dorothy's life and death.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: Fosse adapted the screenplay directly from a Pulitzer Prize winning ''Village Voice'' article investigating Dorothy's life and death.
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* AdultFear: Dorothy's mother is about as enthusiastic as you'd expect when her 18-year-old daughter is seduced by a 26-year-old con artist/pimp. Unfortunately, her worries turn out to be more than justified.
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* WideEyedIdealist: Dorothy. She dreams for a very bright future coming her way, which sadly never happened.
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* NoNameGiven: The real Dorothy Stratten's mother asked the producers to withhold her name from the film, so she's only listed in the credits "Dorothy's Mother".
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* AdaptationalNameChange: It's never mentioned in the film that "Dorothy Stratten" was a stage name shortened from her full name, Dorothy Hoogstraten.
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* AdaptationalNameChange: It's never mentioned in the film that "Dorothy Stratten" was a stage name shortened from her full name, Dorothy Hoogstraten. Her and her family are only ever referred to as "the Strattens".
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The director for whom Dorothy left Paul was actually Creator/PeterBogdanovich, but for legal reasons he's called Aram Nicholas in the film. The names of Dorothy's siblings are also changed.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The director for whom Dorothy left Paul was actually Creator/PeterBogdanovich, but for legal reasons he's called Aram Nicholas in the film. The names of Dorothy's siblings are also changed.changed, and her mother is left unnamed.
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* AdaptationalNameChange: It's never mentioned in the film that "Dorothy Stratten" was a stage name shortened from her full name, Dorothy Hoogstraten.
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''Star 80'' is a 1983 biographical drama about the life and death of Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten, Creator/DorothyStratten, who is murdered by her controlling husband Paul Snider, [[MurderSuicide who later kills himself]]. The film was the last to be directed by Creator/BobFosse and stars Creator/MarielHemingway as Stratten and Creator/EricRoberts as Snider.
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''Star 80'' is a 1983 biographical drama about the life and death of Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten, who is murdered by her controlling husband Paul Snider, [[MurderSuicide who later kills himself.himself]]. The film was the last to be directed by Creator/BobFosse and stars Creator/MarielHemingway as Stratten and Creator/EricRoberts as Snider.
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* DownerBeginning: The movie already starts with Dorothy dead and Paul ranting about what led to this point, [[HowWeGotHere before flashbacks start.]]
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* GoryDiscretionShot: Just as Paul points the shotgun to his head, the film cuts to black while the blast is heard.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Dorothy's affair with Nicholas sends Paul around the bend.
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* AuthorAvatar: Bob Fosse made Paul Snider the main character in the film because he identified with his character the most. Fosse even told Eric Roberts that when he played Snider, he was really playing himself if Fosse had not been successful in show business.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Dorothy's affair with Nicholas sends Paul around the bend.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Dorothy's affair with Nicholas sends Paul around the bend.bend.
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* AdaptationNameChange: The director for whom Dorothy left Paul was actually Creator/PeterBogdanovich, but for legal reasons he's called Aram Nicholas in the film. The names of Dorothy's siblings are also changed.
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'''''Star 80''''' is a 1983 biographical drama about the life and death of Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten, who is murdered by her controlling husband Paul Snider, who later kills himself. The film was the last to be directed by Creator/BobFosse and stars Creator/MarielHemingway as Stratten and Creator/EricRoberts as Snider.
'''''Star 80''''' is a 1983 biographical drama about the life and death of Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten, who is murdered by her controlling husband Paul Snider, who later kills himself. The film was the last to be directed by Creator/BobFosse and stars Creator/MarielHemingway as Stratten and Creator/EricRoberts as Snider.
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* PrivateDetective: Paul hires one when he suspects Dorothy of cheating on him with Nicholas.
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* PrivateDetective: Paul hires one when he suspects Dorothy of cheating on him with Nicholas.
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The story begins with Paul, a small-time hustler, wooing 18-year-old Dorothy after meeting her working at a Dairy Queen. Seeing her as a meal ticket as well as a lover, he has a professional photographer take nudes of her and sends them to Magazine/{{Playboy}}. After getting a positive response the couple moves to Los Angeles, where Hugh Hefner gives Dorothy a job as a bunny and eventually names her Playmate of the Year for 1980.
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The story begins with Paul, a small-time hustler, wooing 18-year-old Dorothy after meeting her working at a Dairy Queen. Seeing her as a meal ticket as well as a lover, he has a professional photographer take nudes of her and sends them to Magazine/{{Playboy}}. ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}''. After getting a positive response the couple moves to Los Angeles, where Hugh Hefner (Cliff Robertson) gives Dorothy a job as a bunny and eventually names her Playmate of the Year for 1980.
*AdultFear: Dorothy's mother is about as enthusiastic as you'd expect when her 18-year-old daughter is seduced by a 26-year-old con artist/pimp. Unfortunately, her worries turn out to be more than justified.
*StageName: A mild example, as ''Playboy'' shortens Dorothy's surname from the unwieldy Hoogstraten.
*PrivateDetective: Paul hires one when he suspects Dorothy of cheating on him with Nicholas.
*VanityLicensePlate: The film's title comes from a vanity plate that Paul gets in honor of Dorothy's being named 1980 Playmate of the Year.
*PrivateDetective: Paul hires one when he suspects Dorothy of cheating on him with Nicholas.
*VanityLicensePlate: The film's title comes from a vanity plate that Paul gets in honor of Dorothy's being named 1980 Playmate of the Year.
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* {{Yandere}}: Paul at the end, of course, but the warning signs start to come earlier, such as when he stabs Dorothy's ex-boyfriend with a pocket knife.
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* {{Yandere}}: Paul at the end, of course, but the warning signs start to come earlier, such as when he stabs Dorothy's ex-boyfriend with a pocket knife.knife.
*YourCheatingHeart: Dorothy's affair with Nicholas sends Paul around the bend.
*YourCheatingHeart: Dorothy's affair with Nicholas sends Paul around the bend.
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'''''Star 80''''' is a 1983 biographical drama about the life and death of Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten, who is murdered by her controlling husband Paul Snider, who later kills himself. The film was the last to be directed by Creator/BobFosse and stars Creator/MarielHemingway as Stratten and Creator/EricRoberts as Snider.Snider.
The story begins with Paul, a small-time hustler, wooing 18-year-old Dorothy after meeting her working at a Dairy Queen. Seeing her as a meal ticket as well as a lover, he has a professional photographer take nudes of her and sends them to Magazine/{{Playboy}}. After getting a positive response the couple moves to Los Angeles, where Hugh Hefner gives Dorothy a job as a bunny and eventually names her Playmate of the Year for 1980.
Paul convinces Dorothy to marry him, but before long she's fallen in love with a film director who casts her in one of his movies. Dorothy's attempt to divorce him finally leads to the confrontation that ends in both their deaths.
The story begins with Paul, a small-time hustler, wooing 18-year-old Dorothy after meeting her working at a Dairy Queen. Seeing her as a meal ticket as well as a lover, he has a professional photographer take nudes of her and sends them to Magazine/{{Playboy}}. After getting a positive response the couple moves to Los Angeles, where Hugh Hefner gives Dorothy a job as a bunny and eventually names her Playmate of the Year for 1980.
Paul convinces Dorothy to marry him, but before long she's fallen in love with a film director who casts her in one of his movies. Dorothy's attempt to divorce him finally leads to the confrontation that ends in both their deaths.
*AdaptationNameChange: The director for whom Dorothy left Paul was actually Creator/PeterBogdanovich, but for legal reasons he's called Aram Nicholas in the film. The names of Dorothy's siblings are also changed.
*BasedOnATrueStory: Fosse adapted the screenplay directly from a ''Village Voice'' article investigating Dorothy's life and death.
*BasedOnATrueStory: Fosse adapted the screenplay directly from a ''Village Voice'' article investigating Dorothy's life and death.
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*ForegoneConclusion: The murder/suicide was still recent news in 1983, so most viewers knew how it would end.
*ILoveTheDead: Paul molests Dorothy's body after killing her. (He also did it ''before'' killing her.)
*IfICantHaveYou
IfICantHaveYou: One of the better-known real-life examples.
*PitySex: Dorothy offers this to Paul at their final meeting, but this just enrages him.
*PlayboyBunny: Justified, as Dorothy actually ''was'' a Playboy bunny.
* WideEyedIdealist:Dorothy.Dorothy.
*{{Yandere}}: Paul at the end, of course, but the warning signs start to come earlier, such as when he stabs Dorothy's ex-boyfriend with a pocket knife.
*ILoveTheDead: Paul molests Dorothy's body after killing her. (He also did it ''before'' killing her.)
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*PitySex: Dorothy offers this to Paul at their final meeting, but this just enrages him.
*PlayboyBunny: Justified, as Dorothy actually ''was'' a Playboy bunny.
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*{{Yandere}}: Paul at the end, of course, but the warning signs start to come earlier, such as when he stabs Dorothy's ex-boyfriend with a pocket knife.
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'''''Star 80''''' is a 1983 biographical drama about the life and death of Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten, who is murdered by her controlling husband Paul Snider, who later kills himself. The film stars Creator/MarielHemingway as Stratten and Creator/EricRoberts as Snider.
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