Happy Endings?
You can't clap with one hand.
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.
- Year: 2009
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- Genre: Documentary
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- Keyword: human trafficking, massage parlor, prostitution
- Director: Tara Hurley
- Cast: David Cicilline, Steven Brown, Joanne Giannini, Donna M. Hughes, Michael A. LoCicero, Rhoda Perry