A film about strippers and lap-dancers and hookers should be a right treat, yes? Well, not with this film. Admittedly, there are some good sex and nudity scenes but the tone of the film was one of depression and some of the filming left a bit to be desired. It looked as if the film-makers backed off from showing too much flesh in the stripping scenes by having the club patrons and club staff placed at strategic places so as to obscure some of the on-stage action - why? This is a film about strippers after all. There are some steamy scenes but there is still the feeling that they held back a bit.
Blake Pickett, billed here as Josie Hunter, plays Erica, a single mother earning a living as a lap-dancer and covertly as a hooker, who is trying to win custody of her daughter. Her story, what little we are told, looks to be one of depression and desperation as she is busted for hooking and then finds the man who could help her is one of her clients.
The music for the film is depressing to listen to. It is as if the songsters are saying, "Feel the pain, the anguish, the torture." One of the stripping scenes has a mournful song played over it instead of a club number. The end of the film offers a beacon of light but then the song over the end credits sounds like a cry for help. It could have ended on a lighter note (no pun intended).
Blake Pickett, billed here as Josie Hunter, plays Erica, a single mother earning a living as a lap-dancer and covertly as a hooker, who is trying to win custody of her daughter. Her story, what little we are told, looks to be one of depression and desperation as she is busted for hooking and then finds the man who could help her is one of her clients.
The music for the film is depressing to listen to. It is as if the songsters are saying, "Feel the pain, the anguish, the torture." One of the stripping scenes has a mournful song played over it instead of a club number. The end of the film offers a beacon of light but then the song over the end credits sounds like a cry for help. It could have ended on a lighter note (no pun intended).