An American drama directed by Stephen Elliott, starring Lili Taylor, James Franco and Heather Graham.
A girl leaves her home, messed up family and boyfriend to move to San Francisco with a male friend. She has paid for the trip with money from a nude photo shoot and enters the porn industry. She meets a rich lawyer and they begin a relationship. Her mother and sister visit, but things don't work out very well with that.
Kind of a weak start, strong middle and terrible ending. It took a little while for things to get happening, but then held my attention. Production was good and the characters worked. There was lots of selective focus in camerawork. A good example is filming filming and having the camera focus shift from camera screen to action. Correct casting and good writing made it seem like the characters were not acting, but actually in these scenes. Isn't that the goal with casting, acting and dialogue? The ending was really just a vaguely implied series of incomplete information. It's difficult to spoil what is so difficult to describe. Small changes took place and we have to assume that time has elapsed before these quick scenes of altered situations. I rate it adequate because the middle was made so well.
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