Working Girls
Synopsis
It is a subtly feminist film, focusing on strong women characters, and depicting prostitution as neither glamorous nor repellent, but rather an ordinary, if exhausting, job.
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Awards & Festivals
Cannes Film Festival
1986 | Directors' Fortnight
Sundance Film Festival
1987 | Winner: Special Jury Prize (Dramatic Competition)
Independent Spirit Awards
1988 | Nominee: Best Female Lead
Critics reviews
This isn’t tragic, or filled with drama, but comedy—making the genre indicators of films about sex work transgressive by satirizing what we’ve come to expect after years of a certain kind of representation on this kind of work.
Willow Maclay
July 17, 2018
[Working Girls] sets the gold standard for how to write women who engage in this profession. It shows audiences the type of doldrums these women find themselves in, and the completely normal activities they engage in during their downtime.
Willow Maclay
March 11, 2015
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