Heaven or Vegas | |
Director: | Gregory C. Haynes |
Music: | Stephen Edwards |
Cinematography: | S. Douglas Smith |
Distributor: | Cineville |
Runtime: | 106 min. |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Heaven or Vegas was a 1996 movie which was a romantic drama that starred Yasmine Bleeth and Richard Grieco.
Rachel (Yasmine Bleeth) is a woman looking for a way out of her dead-end existence. Six years after she ran away from her home in Utah, Rachel is living in Las Vegas, where she works as an exotic dancer and an occasional call girl.
Rachel lives in a fantasy world as a way of distancing herselffrom her bleak surroundings, and she imagines that a PrinceCharming will one day rescue her from her fallen world. On theinside she is still a dreamy little girl who believes in fairytales. She thinks that her prince may have finally arrived whenshe meets Navy (Richard Grieco), a high-class stud-for-sale whohas tired of his humiliating life in the sex industry.
Navy is fond of Rachel, and when he decides to leave male prostitution behind and move to Montana to start a new life,she eagerly joins him. However, along the way she persuades him tomake a stop in Utah so that she can check in with her family.Rachel and Navy discover that it's difficult to hide theirrespective pasts from Rachel's straightlaced family and thatthey're out of step with life in small town America.
Navy alsofinds himself attracted to Rachel's gorgeous and "virginal"stepsister, Lilli (Monica Potter), which leads a heartbrokenRachel to run away just as Navy realizes that Rachel is the onefor him. Rachels sister Paige runs away looking for her and is taken hostage along with Rachel by drifters. Navy and Billy dramatically rescue them from the psychotic drifters. Later Rachel and Navy move to Montana to start their life together and they have two Sons.
Yasmine Bleeth and Richard Grieco, who both starred in this movie, also dated each other.