The Virgin Effect
Daughter of a middle-eastern oil billionaire, drugged and raped at a UCLA frat party, contacts a young Beverly Hills surgeon to restore her physical virginity for her upcoming arranged marriage. When the surgeon's receptionist learns of the plan, she and her boyfriend devise a plot to blackmail the surgeon, threatening to put confidential information and a video of the procedure on the Internet.
Amina had been studying for a graduate degree before returning to her small country for an arranged marriage. Although Amina is carefully chaperoned and overseen, she went out to dinner with some American girlfriends, who talk her into attending the fraternity party with them.
Amina meets a slick, handsome young frat guy. Innocent, protected and unworldly, she has a drink with him and suddenly feels dizzy. When she goes unconscious she is attacked and raped by the drunken frat-rat and his roommate.
Now, her greatest terror is that she has lost her virginity. Her purity was integral to the betrothal to handsome, aristocratic ATA. Now she is damaged goods. She covers up the incident and lies to her family friend and chaperone, SEEMA. In her panic, Amina considers suicide.
Then she sees an ad in a popular magazine for a simple surgery that “restores” virginity and makes a potential bride “as pure as new.” She decides that this is the best resolution.
She consults DR. SAM BARROWS, a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills who practices with his father and asks him to do this procedure. When she shows him her bruises and injuries he is horrified and wants to call the police. But she is afraid that she will be shunned or worse. Finally, Dr. Sam reluctantly agrees to restore her "virginity."
Meanwhile, NANCY, Dr. Barrow’s former receptionist reappears in his life. He unwisely had a brief affair with Nancy years before. When Dr. Sam finally broke it off, Nancy had departed in a furious snit.
Now Nancy lives with a lowlife named LANCE. But she wants to get even with Dr. Sam. She buddies up to a very young receptionist, ALLISON, 18, the daughter of another doctor who is a friend of Dr. Sam. Allison is earning extra money for college by working for Dr. Sam for the summer. Allison, is putty in Nancy’s crafty hands and Nancy finds out that Dr. Sam is restoring the virginity of an oil heiress for her arranged wedding.
Nancy manipulates Allison into letting her into Dr. Sam’s office. She easily recalls his computer password and copies files, photos and notes to verify Amina’s incident.
Nancy and Lance write Dr. Sam an anonymous letter threatening to blow the whole story to Amina’s family and even put it on the internet if they aren’t immediately given $250,000.
Dr. Sam gets the letter and decides to pay the money to protect Amina—with whom he is already falling in love.
But Amina suddenly gets a message on her phone: “u r the Best. LUVR, u no who.” The next message: u forget my luv so soon? c my pix:
A blurred image of naked bodies in motion flashes across the screen. Amina gasps. “We want $$$ or we put it all on the internet." Amina runs into her bathroom and vomits.
She is so distraught that her roommate, SARA, calls Dr. Sam who rushes to the apartment. By now, Amina has confided what happened to Sara. Dr. Sam then tells Amina about the blackmail.
Sara calls SEEMA, Amina’s chaperone.
The next thing we see are Amina’s two brothers, HAFEZ and KHALED, and her fiancé, ATA arriving in Los Angeles. With them is a dangerous-looking young man named ASIM. Her brothers and fiancé sincerely love Amina. But as Amina told Sara, even though her family is full of scientists and professors, in her country it is still the 12th century for women.
Seema meets the young men at the airport. They know what they have to do. Now the payback begins for what has been done to Amina. The young men go about their business methodically and with expert discretion.
In the end, Amina’s family will never have to worry about anything being put on the Internet. Amina and Ata sadly bid goodbye, and she and Dr. Sam go away to get married.
Adrien Brody
Rebecca De mornay type
Ransom
To Die For
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in fiction in 2021 and 2016
I wrote the feature film, Murder in Fashion, about the shooting of designer Gianni Versace by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. The film played at theatres and festivals and was reviewed in the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/movies/22murder.html?_r=0
"Low budget but accurate and well constructed insight into a modern mystery" review by Richard von Lust L.
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