History YMMV / TheLonelyLady

** Carla Maria Peroni, despite appearing on the poster, plays a small part in the movie and disappears following her seduction of Jerilee. This is a shame, as aside from Jerilee appearing uncomfortable at Carla coming onto her (which given the treatment Jerilee has received through the course of the film, is a reaction she would've given to ''anybody''), she actually treats her better than most of her male partners.

** Carla Maria Peroni, despite appearing on the poster, plays a small part in the movie and disappears following her seduction of Jerilee. This is a shame, as she treats her better than most of her male partners.

* HarsherInHindsight: ...or HilariousInHindsight, depending on your SlidingScaleOfCynicismVersusIdealism. The movie follows [[TheIngenue a talented, promising ingenue]] who finds herself in one sleazy, exploitive relationship after another until she walks away from Hollywood for good. It's an eerie echo of the career arc of Zadora herself, who started off as a promising child actress only to end up in one sleazy, exploitive role after another until she walked away from Hollywood for good (in no small part due to this film).

* {{Narm}}: The entire film.
--> "If I write for anyone, Vinnie, I write for ''MMEEEEEE!!!''"

* ValuesResonance: A lot of the film's points about Hollywood having serious problems with sexual misconduct -- perpetrated by men and women alike -- actually come across as being very valid in the wake of the [=#MeToo=] movement. In practice, however, the film depicts this in such an absurd way that the message is almost totally obscured.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Carla Maria Peroni, despite appearing on the poster, plays a small part in the movie and disappears following her seduction of Jerilee. This is a shame, as she treats her better than most of her male partners.

* TheWoobie: Technically averted. Jerilee goes through all sorts of crap and fits the bill of a "Woobie" to a tee, but [[EightDeadlyWords the audience may find it hard to care]].

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: As silly as most of the film is, Jerilee using her award win to deliver a brutal and profane TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the entire entertainment industry is hard not to cheer for, and in the wake of Me Too comes off as far ahead of its time.
* EsotericHappyEnding: As Mister X pointed out in [[https://geekjuicemedia.com/?s=the+lonely+lady Geek Juice's Random Riff of the film]], Jerillee's shocking speech would likely result in her career in Hollywood being sunk and her life being worse.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Mrs. Randall is like the worst mother ever to Jerilee and ''the movie does not see it''.
* ValuesResonance: A lot of the film's points about Hollywood having serious problems with sexual misconduct -- perpetrated by men and women alike -- actually come across as being very valid in the wake of the [=#MeToo=] movement, at least in principle. In practice, however, the film depicts this in such an absurd way that the message is almost totally obscured.

* ValuesResonance: A lot of the film's points about how women tend to be mistreated in Hollywood -- even by other women -- actually come across as being very valid in the wake of the [=#MeToo=] movement, at least in principle. In practice, however, the film depicts this in such an absurd way that the message is almost totally obscured.

* PolishTheTurd: In a subversion, Usefulnotes/GoldenRaspberryAward founder [[https://books.google.com/books?id=bLpJHjGFNk8C&pg=PT231 John Wilson says one of his proudest achievements as a publicist]] is working in the ''The Lonely Lady'' campaign knowing he would later shower the movie with Razzies. In a straighter example, he says Universal attempted some polishing after a disastrous test screening - but Wilson was still able to convince the producers not to cut [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbn39Gocero the infamous breakdown scene]], a bizarre clip he frequently shows in the Razzie ceremonies!

* AwesomeMoments: As silly as most of the film is, Jerilee using her award win to deliver a brutal and profane TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the entire entertainment industry is hard not to cheer for, and in the wake of Me Too comes off as far ahead of its time.

* TheWoobie: Technically averted. Jerilee goes through all sorts of crap and fits the bill of a "Woobie" to a tee, but the audience may find it hard to care.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY:[[invoked]] While on the promotional circuit, Pia Zadora repeatedly described this movie as a cross between ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' and ''{{Film/Emmanuelle}}''.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: While on the promotional circuit, Pia Zadora repeatedly described this movie as a cross between ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' and ''{{Film/Emmanuelle}}''.

* PolishTheTurd: In a subversion, Usefulnotes/GoldenRaspberryAward founder [[https://books.google.com/books?id=bLpJHjGFNk8C&pg=PT231 John Wilson says one of his proudest achievements as a publicist]] is working in the ''The Lonely Lady'' campaign knowing he would later shower the movie with Razzies. In a straighter example, he says Universal attempted some polishing after a disastrous test screening - but Wilson was still able to convince the producers not to cut the infamous breakdown scene, a bizarre clip he frequently shows in the Razzie ceremonies!

* BileFascination

* TheWoobie: Technically averted. Jerilee goes through all sorts of crap and fits the bill of a "Woobie" to a tee, [[EightDeadlyWords but the audience just finds it really hard to give a rat's ass...]]

* UnfortunateImplications: Basically the movie says that every single woman who has made it big in Hollywood--whether as an actress or a writer--has done so by flopping on her back and spreading her legs.

* TheWoobie: Technically averted. Jerilee goes through all sorts of crap and fits the bill of a "Woobie" to a tee, but the audience just finds it really hard to give a rat's ass...