The Girlfriend Experience (2009)

Prostitutes -- they're just like us.  Funny how the movies glamorize the call "girl" - Pretty Woman - but don't like the seedy side of Tangerine that much.   I guess that what will play in Peoria.

Here we have Sasha Grey (IRL a porn actress gone mainstream).  She's got a boyfriend, an apartment, a job.  She enjoys shopping, she's a good listener.  That's what her Johns pay here for - we see them going to the movies, to dinner, talking about their day.  And an occasional roll in the hay.

Set in the waning days of George W. Bush, it's got a lot in common with Up in the Air as we teeter between prosperity and despair.  Directed by Stephen Soderbergh, we also see bits of Sex, Lies and Videotape, kind of a dry reality look at more of everyday life than some exciting other world.

It must be a good premise because there is a new TV show on Starz about this GF Experience.   But again, just middle America fantasy.



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