Happy Endings? (2009)
1h 14m
Running Time
March 1, 2009Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
David Cicilline
Self
Steven Brown
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Joanne Giannini
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Michael A. LoCicero
Monger (voice)
Donna M. Hughes
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Tara Hurley
Director
Rhoda Perry
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Dennis Roberts
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Details.
Wiki.
Happy Endings? is a 2009 cinéma vérité documentary film directed and produced by Tara Hurley. Filmed over 27 months, it chronicles the lives of the women in massage parlors in Rhode Island during a battle in the state legislature to once again make prostitution illegal. During the period of filming, prostitution in Rhode Island was legal as long as it was conducted behind closed doors.The expression "happy ending" is a colloquial term for the practice of a masseuse giving a sexual release to a client.