American Gigolo Trailer

A slick Los Angeles callboy finds love and redemption in Paul Schrader s ultrastylish drama. Highliving prostitute Julian Kay (Richard Gere, stepping in for John Travolta) has it all: the Mercedes, the clothes, access to Beverly Hills swankiest establishments, and a stable of rich, older female clients. But it all falls apart after he does a favor for his former pimp (Bill Duke) and the trick turns up dead a short while later, Julian s actual client won t give him an alibi, and police detective Sunday (Hector Elizondo) doesn t believe the gigolo s denials. The one person who can help him is frustrated politician s wife (and sole nonpaying bedmate) Michelle (Lauren Hutton), if only Julian could let down his defenses and accept her gesture of love. Mixing his admiration for European art cinema with a voyeuristic view of the seamier side of sex and affluence, Schrader renders Julian an inscrutable, emotionally disengaged purveyor of pleasure, decked out in Giorgio Armani clothes c