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2009

Happy Endings?

Directed by Tara Hurley
You can't clap with one hand.

An intriguing exploration of the Asian massage parlor industry in Providence, RI, where a 25 year-old loophole has made the exchange of sex for money legal - as long as it happens behind closed doors. As the documentary follows a recent Korean immigrant, "Heather", working to operate her spa, the city's mayor fights to change the law that allows her business a legal existence. The film includes interviews with Korean women who work in spas, clients who frequent the spas, politicians from 1980 and today, police, local news footage, radio call-in shows and "voiced" reviews from inter-net escort review boards.

Duration

1h 14m

Released

March 1, 2009

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Cast7

  • David Cicilline
  • Steven Brown
  • Joanne Giannini
  • Donna M. Hughes
  • Michael A. LoCicero
  • Rhoda Perry
  • Dennis Roberts

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