Lipstick

Lipstick (1976)

  • 17% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 39% of users liked it
    (1,047 ratings)

Lipstick is a cheap exploitation film pretending to make a social statement about rape and revenge. Chris (Margaux Hemingway), a fashion model is raped by Gordon Stuart (Chris Sarandon) her sister's music teacher. When he tries to rape her sister Kathy (Mariel Hemingway), Chris kills him. She is… More

R,
Directed By
Written By
David Rayfiel
Genres
Mystery & Suspense, Drama
In Theaters
Apr 2, 1976 Wide
On DVD
Oct 14, 2003
Paramount Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

    ...a pervasively uneven drama/thriller that is, for the most part, simply too slow for its own good...

  • Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine

    Lamont Johnson buys wholesale into scripter David Rayfiel's dissection of the fine line between image and reality.

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  • Greg S


    A fashion model is brutally raped by an experimental composer who is acquitted by the jury. Later she gets a chance to mow him down in the street after he rapes her prepubescent sister, too. Moves seamlessly from cynical rapesploitation to implausible courtroom drama to perfunctory… More

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