When Will I Be Loved

Veteran provocateur James Toback's sun-drenched and thoroughly repellent variation on film noir conventions revolves around the undeclared war of wills between amoral vixen Vera (Neve Campbell) and the presumptuous opportunists who make the mistake of thinking they can exploit her. Over the course of one busy day, wealthy, pampered daddy's girl Vera applies for a job with lecherous windbag (Toback himself, playing perhaps the least convincing academic since he cast Joey Lauren Adams as a philosophy professor in 2002's HARVARD MAN); indulges in some afternoon delight with her girlfriend (Joelle Carter); entertains the indulgent parents (Barry Primus, Karen Allen) who'...