BAD - Synopsis

BAD©

Original screen play by Marilyn 

LOG LINE:  Bad is a film about a group of Russians in the fashion industry who import clothing and take a trip to the USA to meet fashion moguls.  A twist of events has a top line Ugly Chic clothing stolen by clean cut thieves and the tough looking Russian visitors befriend the designer and help recover the clothing line in this comedy.

SYNOPSIS:  Maria, a dark haired intense beauty married to Alex usually haunt old bars in shady areas that are protected as cool in their local USSR stomping ground. Back alley legal shipments of clothing from prominent designers are sometimes delivered at ungodly hours by their friends in the business who do not live a linear time reality of predictable schedules to the bars where they hang out accommodating European time difference of the eclectic.

Alex and Maria travel to the USA to meet other designers for import to the USSR.  Vladimir a friend of Alex and Maria’s designs labels for alcoholic beverages. The three friends enjoy all the vices together, smoking, staying up to ungodly hours, drinking and success and retain an uncanny sharpness of observation of human integrity or lack of it and they treasure their long time friendships.

Lavine, a US young model arrives in town for her first big modelling jobs and her mother drops her off at a hotel and has a meal with her and says her goodbyes and leaves her daughter to the modelling world.  Meanwhile local US designers Monique; a French woman; Armand; a long time ‘American classic with the European touch’ designer and Jonathan, designer of the label Ugly Chic for modern working, young clientèle who hate getting up in the morning all work on their fashion shows and upcoming season collections. Tennyson, another young model also funds success and love in her life in the fashion world.

Lavine meets Mark a make up artist she falls in love with from work and her modelling career begins to blossom. The Ugly Chic shipment is stolen and the Soviet invasion helps to find the shipment ironically a group of highly clean cut men in glasses are the thieves of the much in demand hot couture from Jonathan’s unique design mind. Alex befriends Jonathan and he sends him away with clothing gift for Maria which is an excellent compliment to the worn, cool black leather look of the Rusky’s usual fashion mood.  Vladimir is selling his original art label designs for liquor bottles and the friends celebrate their success with the usual clandestine meetings in interesting places. 

All the US designers collections are highly successful and the Russians return to their home country.  Vladimir takes a walk alone to the cemetery and meets Charlie who has been putting flowers on the grave of a deceased child for thirty ears which leads to the question:  Is she back? For if so the whole tomb visitation may be a waste of time!  Vladimir shares absinthe at the cemetery with Charlie from his flask and the two men return to their local reality.

Vladimir, Alex and Maria return to the USSR and decide to invest in diamond mines they celebrate and look forward to more prosperity from their business ventures.