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Butterfly

Play trailer Poster for Butterfly R,  1981,  1h 47m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 40% 5 Reviews Tomatometer 35% 100+ Ratings Popcornmeter
40% Tomatometer 5 Reviews 35% Popcornmeter 100+ Ratings
A nymphet (Pia Zadora) flirts with a father figure (Stacy Keach) in Nevada, and a judge (Orson Welles) runs an incest trial.

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Dwight Brown Sepia Aug 10, 2022
[Pia Zadora] won a Golden Globe Award for best new talent... It makes one wonder. Could the Hollywood foreign press have glue for brains? Go to Full Review
Bob Thomas Associated Press Jul 18, 2019
Butterfly is a decrepit lust-in-the-dust melodrama with as much relevance and far less humor than Tobacco Road. Go to Full Review
Vincent Canby New York Times Nov 11, 2009
3/5
A most entertainingly sleazy melodrama. Go to Full Review
Eddie Harrison film-authority.com Jan 23, 2024
3/5
... a laughing stock in 1982, and it’s still risible now, but there’s fascination in watching these ageing big names circle a famously flighty ingénue.... Go to Full Review
TV Guide Nov 11, 2009
2/4
Producer-director-cowriter Matt Cimber, known heretofore mainly as a soft-core filmmaker and a master of wringing out big production values from tiny means, again does a lot with a slim budget of less than $2 million. Go to Full Review
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George W Jan 9, 2017 not really a period pic or a western its just a HOT MESS!
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Cast & Crew

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Matt Cimber

Director

Stacy Keach

Jess Tyler

Pia Zadora

Kady Tyler

Orson Welles

Judge Rauch

Lois Nettleton

Belle Morgan

Edward Albert

Wash Gillespie

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Butterfly

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Movie Info

Synopsis A nymphet (Pia Zadora) flirts with a father figure (Stacy Keach) in Nevada, and a judge (Orson Welles) runs an incest trial.
Director
Matt Cimber
Producer
Matt Cimber
Screenwriter
John F. Goff, Matt Cimber
Production Co
Par-Par Productions
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 20, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$15.4K
Runtime
1h 47m
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