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MOVIE · 1987

Working Girls

Drama93 min

Louise Smith is a lesbian college graduate in New York, working as a high-priced escort while she tries to finance her own photography business. Over the course of a day in a Manhattan brothel, the film widens to the women around her, with Deborah Banks and Liz Caldwell among the workers moving through the same apartment and the same tightly structured routine. Lizzie Borden keeps the focus on labor as much as sex, following the negotiations, boundaries, and practical details of the job inside a shared workplace.

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