"The Hot Spot" is best known to lecherous film buffs for Jennifer Connelly's topless scene, but this sultry southern noir deserves more than prurient interest. It's arguably Dennis Hopper's best directorial effort (OK, so that's not saying much), and Charles Williams's source novel "Hell Hath No Fury" finds Hopper in a comfortable B-movie milieu, riffing on "Double Indemnity" with an overripe tale of sex, greed, and blackmail in an unnamed Texan town. Fresh from the final season of "Miami Vice", Don Johnson stars as a shifty drifter, conning his way into a salesman job on a used-car lot, where the boss's insatiable wife (Virginia Madsen) offers him sexual favors and a lovely secretary's (Connelly) innocence is threatened by a percolating scandal. Nobody's "really" innocent, of course, and Hopper spices this languid web of secrets with enough trashy misbehavior to qualify "The Hot Spot" as a bona fide guilty pleasure. "--Jeff Shannon"