Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss


Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss is a television film starring Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Hollywood madame Heidi Fleiss. It aired on USA Network on March 29, 2004.

Plot

Heidi Fleiss, the daughter of a prominent Los Angeles doctor, becomes a prostitute for well-known Los Angeles Madam Alex. She soon takes over her boss' operation and begins raking in $300,000 a month by hiring only the most beautiful and high-class prostitutes and catering to wealthy Hollywood types, Europeans, Arab sheiks, and American corporate executives. Her operation is broken up by Los Angeles police in 1993 and she is eventually sent to prison for income tax evasion.

Cast

Production

The original title for the movie was Going Down: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss. Filmed on location in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, many scenes were filmed at Calgary's "Bow River Correctional Centre", a minimum security institution which had been closed and empty for some time before filming and has since been renovated and re-opened as the Southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatric Centre.

Home media

The film was released on Region 1 DVD on May 17, 2005, by 20th Century Fox. It is formatted for closed-caption and subtitled widescreen.

Music

The film's original score was composed by Ryan Shore.