Product Details

• Actors: Jack Vorno, Rue McClanahan, John Barrick, Paul Bruce, Ernest Macias
• Directors: John Hayes
• Writers: John Hayes, Paul Leder, William W. Norton
• Producers: John Hayes, Paul Leder
• Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 1.0)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: July 11, 2006
• Run Time: 149 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000FILUKG
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #113,461 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Golden Girl Double Feature: The Rotten Apple/Hollywood After Dark" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Product Description

Two with Rue! Long before she starred on TV as one of The Golden Girls, Rue McClanahan played Sandy, a reluctant stripper struggling to survive Hollywood After Dark. Embarrassed at having to peel for the public, Sandy is offered a way out by Tony, a loser in love who promises her cold hard cash once he commits a robbery for a sleazy mobster. Unfortunately, a double cross is in the cards along with a couple of murders in this brooding bit of existential exploitation that aspires to be a bit more profound than the average "B"... Plus: Miss McClanahan is Poochie, the "crazy damn whore" who lives in a junkyard in The Rotten Apple. When Ben's car breaks down, the poor guy leaves it by the side of the road with his wife and infant daughter, enters Harry's Junkyard seeking a spare part and, well, steps into Hell. He's promptly seduced by Poochie, framed by owner Harry ("a wrecker of human beings"), and beaten by two corrupt cops, while a bruiser named Blowhard attacks Ben's wife. Re-released as 5 Minutes to Love, this version contains the original title and a lengthy prologue by producer-star Paul Leder (director of I Dismember Mama and My Friends Need Killing) who asks the burning question: "Why would anyone want to make a story like this?"

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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Who Knew, Rue?, March 17, 2007

By	Brian J. Greene "djbrian" (Durham, NC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

These films are maybe not quite as campily delicious as they could be, but they are both worth watching, simply for the fact that each of them star a young and sultry Rue McLanahan, who probably wouldn't want to own up to either of these parts, if you asked her now. In one of the films, she plays "Poochie," a junkyard tramp who keeps hapless men seductively occupied while the guy who owns the lot strips their cars. In the other one she plays a hard-luck stripper. In the world of B or camp movies, these both fall a little short of the upper echelon. But they stand out because in both of them Rue stands in.