PM Entertainment Group Inc. was an American independent production and distribution company who produced  low-to-medium budget films mostly targeted for the home video market. It was founded by Richard Pepin and Joseph Merhi after they worked together at City Lights Entertainment.

They were pretty smart, because they could get actors for a good salary by allowing them to direct. This is how Wings Hauser and Jeff Conaway worked for them. They also filled the void of Cannon — beyond what 21st Century did for a bit — by making action movies that starred Cynthia Rothrock and Don “The Dragon” Wilson.

Traci Lords was also someone they worked with a lot. After becoming famous due to appearing in adult movies underage and starting an acting career, these direct to video action movies offered her steady money and PM plenty of name recognition on the box cover.

This starts when a bunch of thugs are selling guns when the cops get involved. Detective Frank (Jeff Conaway) tries to take them down and is helped by Jackie (Lords), who is working with the LAPD as part of her community service by taking photos. When she takes out one of the bad guys, she gets in trouble with Frank’s boss, Captain Ralph Phipps (Richard Roundtree) because she’s just supposed to be a photographer and not fighting criminals.

As for Jackie’s crime, she was shooting a model who brought cocaine into the home and that was enough for her to lose her son Kevin. Frank is all about having Jackie work with him because, well, she’s Traci Lords. But the rest of the cops regret it, as she starts discovering some dirty police officers like the pimp killing Eddie (Robert Miano), the guy who got her busted and cost her custody of her boy.

Directed and written by Charles T. Kanganis, this has a sexy scene at a shooting gallery, a lovemaking moment intercut with a young child making the least nutritious breakfast of all time and a running subplot of two swordfighting lesbians who keep getting arrested for trying to stab each other. Other than that, however, it’s sadly not good. But you know, I named my second guitar after Traci Lords, so I watched the whole thing.