Lace

Lili (snarling, pouty, perfectly-formed Phoebe Cates), is looking for her mother, Lucinda Lace. Abandoned by her birth mother, raised by peasants close to the Iron Curtain, and then later forced into Soviet labor camps, Lili has clawed her way across more beds than Zsa Zsa Gabor to reach the pinnacle of fame, and now it’s time for some payback, Mommy! But blowsy Aunt Hortense Boutin (Angela Lansbury), who regularly funneled money from “Lucinda” to Lili’s cheerful-but-badly-dressed adoptive parents, tells Lili that “Lucinda Lace” was just a fabrication, a fictional construct by someone who attended the prestigious L’Hirondelle boarding school in the Swiss Alps. Cue the wavy lines as the extensive flashbacks begin. 1960. L’Hirondelle, run with fascist strictness by Monsieur Chardin (Herbert Lom), fails to impress inseparable threesome “Pagan” Trelowney (Brooke Adams), Judy Hale (Bess Armstrong) and Maxine Pascal (Arielle Dombasle). Whether it’s smoking in their room at night, or popping their cherries with the first man they can snag, these three hellcats aren’t going to let little things like European breeding and culture hinder their fevered efforts in ruining their self-esteem. —DVDtalk.com