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Star 80

01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

In 1980, Dorothy Stratten has been murdered while the murderer reflects on this. The film is interspersed with the murder and events leading up. Two years earlier, she was working at a Dairy Queen in her hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia when Paul Snider, a brash, narcissistic, small-time scam artist and pimp, makes her acquaintance. He charms her into letting him take her to her high-school prom. Dorothy's mother is immediately suspicious of Paul, particularly his attempts to ingratiate himself with Dorothy's younger sister. At the dance, quick-tempered Paul stabs her snide ex-boyfriend in the behind with a pocketknife. Afterwards, however, he wins over Dorothy with his attention and flattery, until finally he gets her to agree to pose nude for Instant camera photographs. He then uses the photographs to persuade a professional to create photographic Artist's portfolio of her. After cheating the first professional out of the promised fee, he uses a second professional and sends the second portfolio to ''Playboy'', after forging Dorothy's mother's signature on an age consent form. ''Playboy'' invites Dorothy to come to Los Angeles to pose for a professional photographer.