Synopsis
After his daughter doesn’t return home from a school fieldtrip to Los Angeles, a devoutly Calvinist businessman from the Midwest ventures out to the big city and hires a PI to track her down. What happens next is unthinkable – he finds his daughter in an 8mm hardcore loop. This sends him on an odyssey into the seedy underbelly that is the LA porn scene as he desperately searches for his daughter.
“OH MY GOD, THAT’S MY DAUGHTER.”
After his daughter doesn’t return home from a school fieldtrip to Los Angeles, a devoutly Calvinist businessman from the Midwest ventures out to the big city and hires a PI to track her down. What happens next is unthinkable – he sees his daughter in an 8mm hardcore porno loop. This sends him on an odyssey into the seedy underbelly of the LA porn scene as he desperately searches for his daughter.
Black Maria Film Collective presents writer-director Paul Schrader’s (writer of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull) severely underrated 1979 sophomore feature, HARDCORE. With all the typical Schrader hallmarks such as despairing views of religion, self-destructive descents of character, and the exploration of underbellies often unseen, HARDCORE, is an experience not to be missed.
“TURN IT OFF! TURN IT OFF! TURN IT OFF!”
Prior to the main feature, we are proud to present the first Black Maria-produced short film, the locally-made Same Time Monday, written and directed by our very own Russell Wyatt Roberts and starring 80s Aussie film icon Steve Bisley.