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Working Girls

Janus Film | Release Date: February 27, 1987

Summary: Sex work is portrayed with radical nonjudgment in Lizzie Borden’s immersive, richly detailed look at the rhythms and rituals of society’s most stigmatized profession. Inspired by the experiences of the sex workers Borden met while making her underground feminist landmark Born in Flames, Working Girls reveals the textures of a day in the life of Molly (Louise Smith), a photographer working part-time in a Manhattan brothel, as she juggles a steady stream of clients, balances relationships with her coworkers with the demands of an ambitious madam, and above all fights to maintain her sense of self in a business in which the line between the personal and the professional is all too easily blurred. In viewing prostitution through the lens of labor, Borden boldly desensationalizes the subject, offering an empathetic, humanizing, often humorous depiction of women for whom this work is just another day at the office. [Janus Films]

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Runtime:	93 min
Rating:	Not Rated
Official Site:	https://www.janusfilms.com/films/2026
Production:	Alternate Current
Genres:	Drama
Country:	US
Language:	English
Home Release Date:	Apr 24, 2001

Director	Credit
Lizzie Borden	Director

Writer	Credit
Lizzie Borden	Story
Sandra Kay	Screenplay

Principal Cast	Credit
Amanda Goodwin	Dawn
Boomer Tibbs	Bob
Deborah Banks	Diane
Eli Hasson	Voice Of Hasid
Ellen McElduff	Lucy
Liz Caldwell	Liz
Louise Smith	Molly
Marusia Zach	Gina
Richard M. Davidson	Jerry
Tony Whiting	Voice Of Gina's Client

Cast	Credit
Fred Neumann	Fantasy Fred
Grant Wheaton	Robert
Patience Pierce	Kathy
Paul Slimak	Jay
Ronald Willoughby	John

Producer	Credit
Andi Gladstone	Producer
Lizzie Borden	Producer
Margaret Smilow	Associate Producer