Working Girls

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Working Girls

1986

1h 29m

Drama

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College graduate Molly (Louise Smith), trying to bankroll her own business, works as a high-priced New York City escort. As a lesbian, she's able to keep her emotional distance from the clients, who range from cynically exploitative to desperately needy. But her open ambition to rise above her current station rubs many of her coworkers the wrong way, especially the combative, street-smart Dawn (Amanda Goodwin) and the escort service's disdainful madam, Lucy (Ellen McElduff).

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Derek Malcolm

Guardian

This is on the whole a worthy successor to the lively if indisciplined Born in Flames. It packs in a lot of information, it doesn't preach and it leaves you in no doubt where its sympathies lie.

Mar 14, 2023

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Victoria Mather

Daily Telegraph (UK)

It is a shred, funny film which Borden handles with wit and imagination.

Mar 14, 2023

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Jay Scott

Globe and Mail

Working Girls is provocative, honest, and disturbing.

Dec 7, 2022

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

"Working Girls" could easily be adapted to be a modernday Broadway play. It would be a sensation for its timeless qualities of social, sexual, and economic truth.

Rated: FIVE STARS

Jun 16, 2024

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Marya E. Gates

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

Still feels so revolutionary today.

Feb 12, 2024

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Brian Susbielles

InSession Film

Borden’s feminist underground film, a story of an “economic choice,” is not a documentary as some would call it, but a narrative on women being independent and proud of their livelihood.

Feb 28, 2023

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James W

Credible depiction of working girls in 1986. Unlike so many films about prostitution it isn't pornographic, or ridiculous or tragic. Most of the film takes place in the apartment where the women work on one day. Some johns are stereotypical but there are enough to include a realistic variety of types. Louise Smith as Molly carries the film and is intelligent, well-spoken and attractive.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

05/05/23

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robert p

How this got to be a Criterion movie is beyond me. I do not want to waste my time on Lesbians who comprise alot of working girls!

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Synopsis

College graduate Molly (Louise Smith), trying to bankroll her own business, works as a high-priced New York City escort. As a lesbian, she's able to keep her emotional distance from the clients, who range from cynically exploitative to desperately needy. But her open ambition to rise above her current station rubs many of her coworkers the wrong way, especially the combative, street-smart Dawn (Amanda Goodwin) and the escort service's disdainful madam, Lucy (Ellen McElduff).

Director: Lizzie Borden
Producer: Lizzie Borden, Andi Gladstone
Screenwriter: Lizzie Borden, Sandra Kay
Production Co: Alternate Current, The National Endowment for the Arts
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (DVD): Aug 21, 2007
Runtime: 1h 29m

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