''Young Lust'' is a 1984 American

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directed by

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and starring

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and Mews Small. It was co-financed by

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. It was an early script by

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and was never theatrically released. It was a spoof of soap operas.

Cast

* Mews Small as Connie *

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* Dorothy Constantine as Elaine Bimster * Edith Fields *Lucy Lee Flippin *Terry Kiser *Howard Mann *Dean R. Miller *Alley Mills *John Roarke *Michael W. Schwartz *Lyman Ward *

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Production

The film was part of a slate of projects that Paramount rushed into production. In April 1982 the film was tentatively meant to come out in May. In June 1982 Paramount said they had no plans to release it. A May 1983 article said the film "was such a mess that it has yet to be officially delivered to Paramount." Bruce Wagner later said "I think the director was having some problems at the time with the studio and it was never released. It was a protracted death because a year was spent editing it." Wagner says after a year he was approached to work on the movie for reshoots. "That was also the year where a lot of movies like ''

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'' and raucous comedies like ''

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'' ere releasedand this movie... was very transgressive. The fact that it was not made informed a lot of my future work in writing about failure and shame. I certainly would have written about those things anyway, but in terms of my Hollywood experience, my entrée was one of defeat rather than of triumph."

Legacy

Wagner said "That experience formed a template of failure and humiliation that has been a mother lode for me. Those were aspects of career not personal anguish that I drew from."

References

External links

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