Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss is a television film starring Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Hollywood madame Heidi Fleiss. It aired on USA Network on March 29, 2004.
Plot
Heidi Fleiss (Jamie-Lynn Sigler), the daughter of a prominent Los Angeles doctor, becomes a prostitute for well-known Los Angeles Madam Alex (Brenda Fricker). She soon takes over her boss' operation and begins raking in $300,000 a month by hiring only the most beautiful and high-class prostitutes and catering to wealthy Hollywood types, Europeans, Arab sheiks, and American corporate executives. Her operation is broken up by Los Angeles police in 1993 and she is eventually sent to prison for income tax evasion.
Cast
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Heidi Fleiss
Brenda Fricker as Madame Alex
Saul Rubinek as Paul Fleiss
Emmanuelle Vaugier as Lauren
Natassia Malthe as Charisse
Ian Tracey as Sergeant Willeford
Blu Mankuma as Police chief
Robert Davi as Ivan Nagy
Corbin Bernsen as Steve
Hrant Alianak as Prince Hassan
Crystal Balint as Tracey
Susannah Hoffmann as Elissa Fleiss
Missy Peregrym as Tina
Joe Norman Shaw as Heidi's Lawyer
Stefanie von Pfetten as Michelle
Production
The original title for the movie was Going Down: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss. Filmed on location in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, many scenes were filmed at Calgary's "Bow River Correctional Centre", a minimum security institution which had been closed and empty for some time before filming and has since been renovated and re-opened as the Southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatric Centre.
Home media
The film was released on Region 1 DVD on May 17, 2005, by 20th Century Fox. It is formatted for closed-caption and subtitled widescreen.
Music
The film's original score was composed by Ryan Shore.
References
External links
Robert Pardi. Call Me: The Rise And Fall Of Heidi Fleiss
DAVID MCCUTCHEON. CALL ME: THE RISE AND FALL OF HEIDI FLEISS
Brian Lowry. Review: ‘Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss’
ALESSANDRA STANLEY. TELEVISION REVIEW; No Inhibitions, or Excuses, for a Hollywood Madam Matthew Gilbert. Heidi Fleiss movie 'Call Me' is all gloss, no insight