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The Happy Hooker

1975 · 98 min

A breezy, cheeky rise-and-fall romp that treats sex as a business and keeps things light even when the cops show up.

Tagline
A Real Woman Tells The Truth
Overview
Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and starts liberally sampling the local male talent. After a while she decides to make her pleasure her business too, and as her reputation grows she graduates to a high-class bordello. Soon she realises she has the right talents to make a real success of a place of her own.

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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • ambition
  • sexuality
  • class
  • corruption
  • identity
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour6
Realism6
Romance5
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
drama, comedy, romance
Directed by
Nicholas Sgarro
Written by
William Richert
Starring
Lynn Redgrave, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Lovelady Powell, Tom Poston, George Dzundza, Richard Lynch, John Getz, Vincent Schiavelli
Runtime
98 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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