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Joe Lieberman (no, [[NamesTheSame not the former Senator]]!) is a 50-year-old widower, picking up the pieces nine months after his wife died. He's also rich enough to spend an apparently indefinite amount of time in Hawaii and say "price is no object" when shopping for Hawaiian condos.
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Joe Lieberman (no, [[NamesTheSame not the former Senator]]!) Senator!) is a 50-year-old widower, picking up the pieces nine months after his wife died. He's also rich enough to spend an apparently indefinite amount of time in Hawaii and say "price is no object" when shopping for Hawaiian condos.
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* HouseHuntingMontage: Joe goes on a house hunting montage with Karen the realtor--not because he wants a house, but because he really likes spending time with Karen. In the montage he repeatedly says "no" to house after house, because he's stalling.
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Based on a short story by W.P. Kinsella, who also wrote the novel that was the basis for ''Film/FieldOfDreams''. One of only three films directed by Christine Lahti, who spent most of her career as an actress on TV shows like ''Series/ChicagoHope''.
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Based on a short story by W.P. Kinsella, Creator/WPKinsella, who also wrote the novel that was the basis for ''Film/FieldOfDreams''. One of only three films directed by Christine Lahti, who spent most of her career as an actress on TV shows like ''Series/ChicagoHope''.
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''Lieberman in Love'' is a 1995 short film (barely, it got under the 40-minute AMPAS cutoff by thirty seconds) directed by Creator/ChristineLahti.
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''Lieberman in Love'' is a 1995 short film (barely, it got under the 40-minute AMPAS cutoff by thirty seconds) directed by and co-starring Creator/ChristineLahti.
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Joe (Creator/DannyAiello) is in fact spending an indefinite amount of time when he approaches Shaleen (Christine Lahti) at the hotel bar. Shaleen says politely but firmly that her time is expensive--in other words, that she's a prostitute. Joe is retreating in embarrassment when Shaleen points out that he was going to spend money on her anyway in hopes of sex: instead of spending the money on a fancy dinner for two and wine, why not just pay her directly and be sure of sex?
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Joe (Creator/DannyAiello) is in fact spending an indefinite amount of time when he approaches Shaleen (Christine Lahti) (Lahti) at the hotel bar. Shaleen says politely but firmly that her time is expensive--in other words, that she's a prostitute. Joe is retreating in embarrassment when Shaleen points out that he was going to spend money on her anyway in hopes of sex: instead of spending the money on a fancy dinner for two and wine, why not just pay her directly and be sure of sex?
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* ShakingTheRump: The film opens with a closeup of a hula dancer shaking her butt in front of the camera, then pans over to the doughy behind of the tourist next to her, doing the same.
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So he does. In fact, he becomes one of her regular clients. Joe, apparently wealthy enough to retire to Hawaii at age 50, starts shopping for condos. His real estate agent is a golden-haired beauty named Karen (Nancy Travis). Joe finds himself falling for Karen, but Karen is married. So Joe enlists Shaleen the hooker, paying her fifty thousand dollars to seduce the husband and break up Karen's marriage.
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So he does. In fact, he becomes one of her regular clients. Joe, apparently wealthy enough to retire to Hawaii at age 50, starts shopping for condos. His real estate agent is a golden-haired beauty named Karen (Nancy Travis).(Creator/NancyTravis). Joe finds himself falling for Karen, but Karen is married. So Joe enlists Shaleen the hooker, paying her fifty thousand dollars to seduce the husband and break up Karen's marriage.
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* UnproblematicProstitution: As Shaleen explains, she's good at it, the men are satisfied, she makes a lot of money and she's going to retire young.
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''Lieberman in Love'' is a 1995 short film (barely, it got under the 40-minute AMPAS cutoff by thirty seconds) directed by Christine Lahti.
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''Lieberman in Love'' is a 1995 short film (barely, it got under the 40-minute AMPAS cutoff by thirty seconds) directed by Christine Lahti.
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Joe (Danny Aiello) is in fact spending an indefinite amount of time when he approaches Shaleen (Christine Lahti) at the hotel bar. Shaleen says politely but firmly that her time is expensive--in other words, that she's a prostitute. Joe is retreating in embarrassment when Shaleen points out that he was going to spend money on her anyway in hopes of sex: instead of spending the money on a fancy dinner for two and wine, why not just pay her directly and be sure of sex?
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Joe (Danny Aiello) (Creator/DannyAiello) is in fact spending an indefinite amount of time when he approaches Shaleen (Christine Lahti) at the hotel bar. Shaleen says politely but firmly that her time is expensive--in other words, that she's a prostitute. Joe is retreating in embarrassment when Shaleen points out that he was going to spend money on her anyway in hopes of sex: instead of spending the money on a fancy dinner for two and wine, why not just pay her directly and be sure of sex?
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* HulasAndLuau: The first shot of the movie is the shapely backside of a hula dancer as she shakes it at a luau--pan over to the fat butt of the tourist jiggling next to her. Near the end of the film, Shaleen and Joe stumble into another luau as Shaleen explains what went down with Karen.
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* HulasAndLuau: HulaAndLuaus: The first shot of the movie is the shapely backside of a hula dancer as she shakes it at a luau--pan over to the fat butt of the tourist jiggling next to her. Near the end of the film, Shaleen and Joe stumble into another luau as Shaleen explains what went down with Karen.
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* VacationEpisode: A rich widower retiring to Hawaii finds himself in a love triangle.
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* VacationEpisode: A rich widower retiring to Hawaii finds himself in a love triangle.triangle.
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* HulasAndLuaus: HulasAndLuau: The first shot of the movie is the shapely backside of a hula dancer as she shakes it at a luau--pan over to the fat butt of the tourist jiggling next to her. Near the end of the film, Shaleen and Joe stumble into another luau as Shaleen explains what went down with Karen.
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So he does. In fact, he becomes one of her regular clients. Joe, apparently wealthy enough to retire to Hawaii at age 50, starts shopping for condos. His real estate agent is a golden-haired beauty named Karen (Nancy Travis). Joe finds himself falling for Karen, but Karen is married. So Joe enlists Shaleen the hooker to break up Karen's marriage.
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So he does. In fact, he becomes one of her regular clients. Joe, apparently wealthy enough to retire to Hawaii at age 50, starts shopping for condos. His real estate agent is a golden-haired beauty named Karen (Nancy Travis). Joe finds himself falling for Karen, but Karen is married. So Joe enlists Shaleen the hooker hooker, paying her fifty thousand dollars to seduce the husband and break up Karen's marriage.
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Based on a short story by W.P. Kinsella, who also wrote the novel that was the basis for ''Film/FieldOfDreams''.
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Based on a short story by W.P. Kinsella, who also wrote the novel that was the basis for ''Film/FieldOfDreams''.
''Film/FieldOfDreams''. One of only three films directed by Christine Lahti, who spent most of her career as an actress on TV shows like ''Series/ChicagoHope''.
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''Lieberman in Love'' is a 1995 short film (barely, it got under the 40-minute AMPAS cutoff by thirty seconds) directed by Christine Lahti.
Joe Lieberman (no, [[NamesTheSame not the former Senator]]!) is a 50-year-old widower, picking up the pieces nine months after his wife died. He's also rich enough to spend an apparently indefinite amount of time in Hawaii and say "price is no object" when shopping for Hawaiian condos.
Joe (Danny Aiello) is in fact spending an indefinite amount of time when he approaches Shaleen (Christine Lahti) at the hotel bar. Shaleen says politely but firmly that her time is expensive--in other words, that she's a prostitute. Joe is retreating in embarrassment when Shaleen points out that he was going to spend money on her anyway in hopes of sex: instead of spending the money on a fancy dinner for two and wine, why not just pay her directly and be sure of sex?
So he does. In fact, he becomes one of her regular clients. Joe, apparently wealthy enough to retire to Hawaii at age 50, starts shopping for condos. His real estate agent is a golden-haired beauty named Karen (Nancy Travis). Joe finds himself falling for Karen, but Karen is married. So Joe enlists Shaleen the hooker to break up Karen's marriage.
Based on a short story by W.P. Kinsella, who also wrote the novel that was the basis for ''Film/FieldOfDreams''.
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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Joe, gobsmacked after he finds out that Shaleen paid Karen fifty grand of her own money to get lost, says "Is this a declaration of love?" Shaleen, tears streaming down her face, says "So what if it is? So what?"
* BettyAndVeronicaSwitch: It seemed like sweet and innocent Karen was the Betty and cynical prostitute Shaleen was the Veronica--they're even color-coded that way, with Karen's blonde hair and Shaleen's dark reddish-brown. But it turns out that Karen is a money-grubbing schemer. Shaleen picks up on this and gives Karen $50,000 ''of her own money'', the money that Joe paid her for the job, so that Karen will get out of Joe's life. (Karen soon scams $50K more out of Joe.). Why did Shaleen pay Karen to go away? Because Shaleen is the real Betty and has fallen in love with Joe.
* TheBigDamnKiss: The AnguishedDeclarationOfLove is followed by TheBigDamnKiss, which is followed by Joe pulling back and realizing that it's the first time they ever kissed. Shaleen, shocked, says that hookers don't kiss--and then kisses him again.
* DoggedNiceGuy: When Joe can't get pass first base with Karen he plots to artificially engineer this situation. He will get Shaleen to seduce Karen's husband so that Joe can swoop in and console Karen afterwards. He eventually finds out that he misjudged the situation badly.
* {{Flashback}}: Joe thinks that Shaleen double-crossed him by taking $50K from him to break up Karen's marriage, then--according to Karen--demanding $50K from Karen to get out of her husband's life. A flashback reveals what really happened: Shaleen, who has figured out that Karen is a schemer looking to bleed Joe for money, offered her the $50K that Joe gave her in return for Karen going away.
* {{Foreshadowing}}
** Karen's failure to pick up on Joe's Shirleen/Shaleen INeverSaidItWasPoison blunder with names foreshadows that Karen actually knows Shaleen's name and is lying to Joe.
** Shirleen has a candid talk with Joe in the beginning about men spending money indirectly to have sex with women--taking them out, buying them dinner and candy and flowers--when they might as well spend it directly on sex. The ending reveals that Karen was scamming money out of Joe indirectly.
* HighClassCallGirl: Shaleen is a high-end hooker and she's not at all ashamed about it. Joe, who's pretty rich, becomes a regular client.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Shaleen denies this specifically, saying "I ''don't'' have a heart of gold." Until the end, of course, when we find out that she does.
* HulasAndLuaus: The first shot of the movie is the shapely backside of a hula dancer as she shakes it at a luau--pan over to the fat butt of the tourist jiggling next to her. Near the end of the film, Shaleen and Joe stumble into another luau as Shaleen explains what went down with Karen.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Averted. When a weeping Karen tells Joe about how someone named "Shirleen" seduced her husband, he automatically corrects her, saying "Shaleen." Karen totally misses this--or maybe she doesn't miss it. The ending reveals that Karen not picking up on the name was {{Foreshadowing}}.
* MaliciousMisnaming: Karen keeps calling Shaleen "Shaboom", even after Shaleen corrects her and threatens to punch her if she does it again.
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Ends with Shaleen and Joe, having admitted their love for each other, walking away down the beach.
* SwissBankAccount: Shaleen has made enough money as a HighClassCallGirl that she's socked it all away in a SwissBankAccount and anticipates that she can retire before she ages out of hooking.
* TimePassesMontage: A series of scenes where Joe is shown saying "no" to various condos. (He's clearly more interested in time with Karen.)
* VacationEpisode: A rich widower retiring to Hawaii finds himself in a love triangle.
Joe Lieberman (no, [[NamesTheSame not the former Senator]]!) is a 50-year-old widower, picking up the pieces nine months after his wife died. He's also rich enough to spend an apparently indefinite amount of time in Hawaii and say "price is no object" when shopping for Hawaiian condos.
Joe (Danny Aiello) is in fact spending an indefinite amount of time when he approaches Shaleen (Christine Lahti) at the hotel bar. Shaleen says politely but firmly that her time is expensive--in other words, that she's a prostitute. Joe is retreating in embarrassment when Shaleen points out that he was going to spend money on her anyway in hopes of sex: instead of spending the money on a fancy dinner for two and wine, why not just pay her directly and be sure of sex?
So he does. In fact, he becomes one of her regular clients. Joe, apparently wealthy enough to retire to Hawaii at age 50, starts shopping for condos. His real estate agent is a golden-haired beauty named Karen (Nancy Travis). Joe finds himself falling for Karen, but Karen is married. So Joe enlists Shaleen the hooker to break up Karen's marriage.
Based on a short story by W.P. Kinsella, who also wrote the novel that was the basis for ''Film/FieldOfDreams''.
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!!Tropes:
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Joe, gobsmacked after he finds out that Shaleen paid Karen fifty grand of her own money to get lost, says "Is this a declaration of love?" Shaleen, tears streaming down her face, says "So what if it is? So what?"
* BettyAndVeronicaSwitch: It seemed like sweet and innocent Karen was the Betty and cynical prostitute Shaleen was the Veronica--they're even color-coded that way, with Karen's blonde hair and Shaleen's dark reddish-brown. But it turns out that Karen is a money-grubbing schemer. Shaleen picks up on this and gives Karen $50,000 ''of her own money'', the money that Joe paid her for the job, so that Karen will get out of Joe's life. (Karen soon scams $50K more out of Joe.). Why did Shaleen pay Karen to go away? Because Shaleen is the real Betty and has fallen in love with Joe.
* TheBigDamnKiss: The AnguishedDeclarationOfLove is followed by TheBigDamnKiss, which is followed by Joe pulling back and realizing that it's the first time they ever kissed. Shaleen, shocked, says that hookers don't kiss--and then kisses him again.
* DoggedNiceGuy: When Joe can't get pass first base with Karen he plots to artificially engineer this situation. He will get Shaleen to seduce Karen's husband so that Joe can swoop in and console Karen afterwards. He eventually finds out that he misjudged the situation badly.
* {{Flashback}}: Joe thinks that Shaleen double-crossed him by taking $50K from him to break up Karen's marriage, then--according to Karen--demanding $50K from Karen to get out of her husband's life. A flashback reveals what really happened: Shaleen, who has figured out that Karen is a schemer looking to bleed Joe for money, offered her the $50K that Joe gave her in return for Karen going away.
* {{Foreshadowing}}
** Karen's failure to pick up on Joe's Shirleen/Shaleen INeverSaidItWasPoison blunder with names foreshadows that Karen actually knows Shaleen's name and is lying to Joe.
** Shirleen has a candid talk with Joe in the beginning about men spending money indirectly to have sex with women--taking them out, buying them dinner and candy and flowers--when they might as well spend it directly on sex. The ending reveals that Karen was scamming money out of Joe indirectly.
* HighClassCallGirl: Shaleen is a high-end hooker and she's not at all ashamed about it. Joe, who's pretty rich, becomes a regular client.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Shaleen denies this specifically, saying "I ''don't'' have a heart of gold." Until the end, of course, when we find out that she does.
* HulasAndLuaus: The first shot of the movie is the shapely backside of a hula dancer as she shakes it at a luau--pan over to the fat butt of the tourist jiggling next to her. Near the end of the film, Shaleen and Joe stumble into another luau as Shaleen explains what went down with Karen.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Averted. When a weeping Karen tells Joe about how someone named "Shirleen" seduced her husband, he automatically corrects her, saying "Shaleen." Karen totally misses this--or maybe she doesn't miss it. The ending reveals that Karen not picking up on the name was {{Foreshadowing}}.
* MaliciousMisnaming: Karen keeps calling Shaleen "Shaboom", even after Shaleen corrects her and threatens to punch her if she does it again.
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Ends with Shaleen and Joe, having admitted their love for each other, walking away down the beach.
* SwissBankAccount: Shaleen has made enough money as a HighClassCallGirl that she's socked it all away in a SwissBankAccount and anticipates that she can retire before she ages out of hooking.
* TimePassesMontage: A series of scenes where Joe is shown saying "no" to various condos. (He's clearly more interested in time with Karen.)
* VacationEpisode: A rich widower retiring to Hawaii finds himself in a love triangle.
