Butterfly

R

1981

1h 47m

Drama

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40%

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5 Reviews

35%

Audience Score

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

[Pia Zadora] won a Golden Globe Award for best new talent... It makes one wonder. Could the Hollywood foreign press have glue for brains?

Aug 10, 2022

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Bob Thomas

Associated Press

Butterfly is a decrepit lust-in-the-dust melodrama with as much relevance and far less humor than Tobacco Road.

Jul 18, 2019

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Vincent Canby

New York Times

A most entertainingly sleazy melodrama.

Rated: 3/5

Nov 11, 2009

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

... 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....

Rated: 3/5

Jan 23, 2024

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TV Guide

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.

Rated: 2/4

Nov 11, 2009

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steve d

Its fairly ridiculous and completely forgettable.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

not really a period pic or a western its just a HOT MESS!

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Audience Member

Its no wonder this movie stole the awards back in 1982. Who doesn't enjoy watching a beautiful new face in Hollywood grace the big screen in a sexy romantic role? Exactly! Everything they did here was perfectly balanced. For the harsh critic this story takes place in Nevada. The legal consent age is 16 years old. So no the girl was not underage.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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Audience Member

I liked this movie and thought it was very well acted by pia Isadora and Stacy Keach as well as all of the others in the movie. It reflected real life and real life in the thirties especially.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/15/23

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Audience Member

Campy infamous "bad movie" holds the attention due to its awfulness, and Pia Zadora playing 'dramatic' scenes with Orson Welles is nothing to sneeze at.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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bill t

Pia Zadora's debut! Ahhhhh this was pretty good, in terms of tawdry potboilers go. Zadora gets all the best lines here. But I just love Orson Welles as the judge looking just boggled out of his mind while having to endure all this crap.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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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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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: Tino Barzie
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