Hot Club California (1999)
Release Year: 1999
Nation: United States of America
Alternative Title: N/A
Director: John Quinn
Writer: Leland Zaitz
Production & Genre
Producer(s):
Companies: Cameo Films
Genre: Comedy
Story
Three sisters from Detroit discover $100,000 and decide to use it to start a new life in California. They travel there intending to open a strip club using their uncle's old club as a base of operations. However, unbeknownst to them, the money belongs to a powerful Detroit mob boss who is determined to retrieve his funds. He sends enforcers to California to track down the sisters and reclaim the money. The sisters must navigate this unexpected threat while trying to make their new business venture succeed.
Summary
Hot Club California is a comedic crime film that follows three sisters' ambitious plan to start over in California using ill-gotten funds from Detroit's criminal underworld. While the movie does not explore deep themes, it offers a blend of humor and suspense as the sisters attempt to evade the mob boss's wrath while trying to establish their new strip club. The film's setting in late 1990s California provides a backdrop for its story of opportunism, desperation, and unlikely entrepreneurship.
