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Sell/Buy/Date

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Sell/Buy/Date

Released Oct 14, 2022

1h 37m

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Comedy

Drama

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Executive Produced by Meryl Streep, Sell/Buy/Date is a hybrid doc/narrative following Tony winning performer and comedian Sarah Jones. As a mixed-race Black woman in America, Sarah, alongside the multicultural characters she's known for, explores her own personal relationship to one of the most misunderstood issues in our current culture: the sex industry, and the surprisingly diverse range of people whose lives it touches. Through interviews and even celebrity cameos, this film poses the question: how can we as a society have a healthy relationship to sex, power, race and our economy, without exploitation or stigma? The goal is to highlight the human faces and voices at the center of this subject.

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Jude Dry

IndieWire

Sell/Buy/Date plays like a Vice special crossed with an Off-Broadway show. It would be dangerous if it weren’t so ineffective.

Rated: C-

Oct 17, 2022

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Katie Walsh

TheWrap

In a world where discourse is flattened into hyperbolic hot takes, it’s a rare and, frankly, beautiful thing to watch the process of someone seeking answers, asking questions and listening to lived experience before coming to her own conclusions.

Oct 13, 2022

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Lisa Kennedy

New York Times

If you’re hoping to land squarely on an “aye” or a “nay” about the sex-work industry, Sarah Jones’s documentary-narrative feature, “Sell/Buy/Date,” won’t help. And that’s a good thing.

Oct 13, 2022

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

An unfocused, meandering and cringe-inducing amalgam of mockumentary and documentary.

Oct 19, 2022

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Monique Jones

Common Sense Media

Sell/Buy/Date tries to do something different with the documentary format, and, for the most part, it works. The film is at its strongest when it allows those who are the most impacted by Jones' one-woman show to speak.

Rated: 4/5

Oct 19, 2022

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Carla Renata

The Curvy Film Critic

Tony Winner Sarah Jones' Sell/Buy/Date is engaging for its unapologetic manner of storytelling permeating every nook and cranny of the sex working industry with humor, candor and illuminating facts along the way

May 9, 2022

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dave d

I'm not sure making a hybrid mockumentary and documentary on sex work is a great idea. The doc side was informative and important, but when Sarah Jones tries to be funny it is a giant swing and a miss. The unfortunate part is this is a necessary film, however it is filled with distraction and self-indulgence. Jones makes a film about herself and not the workers she is claiming to represent. For that reason alone, this film is ultimately a failure. Final Score: 5/10

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

05/30/23

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Executive Produced by Meryl Streep, Sell/Buy/Date is a hybrid doc/narrative following Tony winning performer and comedian Sarah Jones. As a mixed-race Black woman in America, Sarah, alongside the multicultural characters she's known for, explores her own personal relationship to one of the most misunderstood issues in our current culture: the sex industry, and the surprisingly diverse range of people whose lives it touches. Through interviews and even celebrity cameos, this film poses the question: how can we as a society have a healthy relationship to sex, power, race and our economy, without exploitation or stigma? The goal is to highlight the human faces and voices at the center of this subject.

Director: Sarah Jones
Producer: Sarah Jones, David Goldblum, Julie Parker Benello
Screenwriter: Sarah Jones, David Goldblum
Distributor: Cinedigm
Production Co: Secret Sauce Media , Foment Productions, Conscious Contact Entertainment
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 14, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 8, 2022
Runtime: 1h 37m

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