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Actors: Louise Smith, Deborah Banks, Liz Caldwell, Marusia Zach, Amanda Goodwin
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Working Girls |
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Co-writer and director Lizzie Borden produced this 1986 story of life and work in an upscale Manhattan brothel. Molly is a Yale graduate with degrees in history and English lit, and a lesbian whose lover doesn't know what she does for a living. Dawn is a law student, other girls are older and have more modest dreams. The "phone girl" takes calls and makes appointments or does the sales pitch, while the other women make idle small talk. The male clients request to play out their old and deep needs, in which the prostitutes sometimes seem no more than a supporting cast--occasionally sympathetic, often secretly amused and contemptuous. The film has a rough, documentary-like feel; it does not glamorize the dullness, pain, and demoralizing nature of the work, though the story dwells more on management and business aspects -- how the characters try to manipulate one another and avoid being manipulated -- than the sex.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Working Girls |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- LESBIANS!!!!!!
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- prostitute
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- prostitute/concubine
Age:
- 20's-30's
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- thoughtful
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- use of artificial tools
- seeing breasts
- sex under blankets
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
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