Brains and beauty meet in one wildly explosive night.

It's a hot night in 1953 and a professor (Michael Emil), an actress (Theresa Russell), a senator (Tony Curtis) and a football player (Gary Busey), meet in a New York hotel. The characters are not given their real names in the film, but are clearly meant to be Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Senator Joe McCarthy and Joe Dimaggio. As well as resembling the well-known figures, the actors are also recognisable as a cross-section of America at that time.

Gary Busey, Theresa Russell and Tony Curtis star in this turbulent comedy of secrets and lies from which no one emerges unscathed.