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| Lady Magdalene's | |
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| Directed by | J. Neil Schulman |
| Written by | J. Neil Schulman |
| Produced by | J. Neil Schulman |
| Starring | Nichelle Nichols |
| Cinematography | Scott MacDonald |
| Edited by | J. Kent Hastings |
| Music by | Daniel May |
| Distributed by | Amazon Prime |
Release date |
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Running time | 116 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $500,000[2] |
Lady Magdalene's is afilm directed, written and produced byJ. Neil Schulman and starringNichelle Nichols (who also received an executive producer credit). The movie was J. Neil Schulman's debut as a director, and Nichelle Nichols' debut as a producer.
Jack Goldwater, an IRS agent on loan to the Federal Air Marshal Service, is relieved of field duty after insulting a powerful U.S. senator, and finds himself exiled to a humiliating desk job in Nevada as the federal receiver managing a legal brothel in tax default, where—with the help of the brothel Madam, Lady Magdalene—he uncovers an Al Qaeda plot to unload a nuclear-bomb-sized crate at Hoover Dam.
The movie was produced by Schulman's own film company Jesulu Productions. After film-festival play the full movie was released on YouTube.[3]
The film won three film-festival awards: "Best Cutting Edge Film" at the 2008 San Diego Film Festival, "Audience Choice -- Feature-Length Narrative Film" at the 2008 Cinema City International Film Festival held on the Universal Hollywood Citywalk,[4] and "Special Jury Prize for Libertarian Ideals" at the 2011 Anthem Film Festival/FreedomFest held at Bally's Las Vegas.[5]