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Good performances in a flawed plot

A leading internet porn star challenges her life style

This Girl's Life [2006]
Starring: James Woods , Rosario Dawson , Michael Rapaport , and Juliette Marquis
Manufacturer: Soda Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000GCF9N0
Release Date: 2006-09-25

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Good performances in a flawed plot.......2007-05-22

This Girl's Life is OK, not great but not completely dire.

It is the story of Moon, a beautiful, apparently intelligent, emotionally secure young woman, who enters the sex industry at the tender age of 18 because she is "curious" and, that old chestnut, she "loves sex".

5 years on she meets a man on a blind date who says he accepts her, but does not want to enter into a relationship with her unless she gives up the business. Apparently, this is the first time that she has questioned her work, having previously believed that she was in control of her life and career.

Moon is torn between her attraction for this man, her need to support and care for her father, who has Parkinson's, and her paternalistic relationship with her manipulative director.

There are good performances from all the cast, notable James Woods, who has some great lines. But the film is ultimately dishonest, because we are asked to believe that Moon can emerge from 5 years in the sex industry as pure, wide-eyed and fresh as the day she entered it; that she has close, supportive relationships with all the other women she works with, devoid of any rivalry, and other female friends outside the industry, who accept her work at face value. We are asked to believe that Moon is allowed to take her pick of a line up of men procured for her to have sex with. Oh, and apparently she never fakes orgasms at work.

If you can get past all that, then there are some good lines in this film and some good performances. The sex is filmed tastefully, beautifully lit, with productions values you would never see on a straightforward porn film. But then, there is much less sex than in your usual top shelf material.

The ambiguous relationship between Moon and her father is really interesting. His Parkinson's means that he sometimes mistakes Moon for her dead mother. She accepts this, sometimes overt sexuality, deflecting it without embarrassment, despite having to perform the most intimate care tasks for her father.

Watch this film for the pretty girls and James Woods' delicious anecdotes, or don't (you won't have missed much. If you are looking for an insight into the sex industry, or support for the idea that women working in the industry are empowered, forget it.

A leading internet porn star challenges her life style.......2007-03-06

Moon (Juliette Marquis) has enjoyed being a leading internet porn star for a number of years with her entire working day at the porn studios relayed over the internet via webcams everywhere; then suddenly attraction to an average normal man makes her re-assess her entire life.

The character of Moon is well developed and exceptionally well acted by Marquis, particularly the loving relationship with her father Pops (James Woods) and her acceptance of having to care for an old father with advanced Parkinson's disease.

Thomas Arana is particularly good as Aaronson the boss of her porn film company, a great portrayal of masterful control behind a caring friendly front.

How representative of the internet porn industry in general this film is I cannot say, but it is a convincing portrayal of porn actresses as normal caring women.

Do not confuse this film with the brilliant but glitzy "Boogie Nights", this is a very successful real life drama.

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European import. Plays on standard UK DVD players in English without subtitles. Thunderbirds is a British mid-1960s television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films using a form of puppetry dubbed "Supermarionation". The series followed the adventures of International Rescue, an organisation created to help those in grave danger using technically advanced equipment and machinery. The series focused on the head of the organisation, ex-astronaut Jeff Tracy, and his five sons who piloted the "Thunderbird" machines. A popular show, the series is still shown today and has inspired a number of subsequent television programmes and films. Set in the 21st century (the actual year remains a hot topic amongst fans, due to contradictory dates seen on newspapers and calendars in different episodes, though Gerry Anderson stated in a Sci-Fi interview that it was set in 2065) the show depicts the adventures of the Tracy family, which consists of millionaire former astronaut Jeff Tracy and his five sons: Scott (pilot of Thunderbird 1 and principal rescue co-ordinator), Virgil (pilot of Thunderbird 2), Alan (astronaut in Thunderbird 3), Gordon (aquanaut in Thunderbird 4) and John (principal duty astronaut on the space station Thunderbird 5) - each named after a Mercury astronaut - Scott Carpenter,[1] Virgil Grissom,[2] Alan Shepard,[3] Gordon Cooper[4] and John Glenn,[5] respectively. Together with Jeff's elderly mother called Grandma Tracy, the scientific genius and engineer "Brains", the family's manservant Kyrano and his daughter Tin-Tin, the Tracy family live on a remote, uncharted Pacific island. They are, in secret, the members of International Rescue, a private and highly-advanced emergency response organisation, which covers the globe and even reaches into space, rescuing people with their futuristic vehicles, the Thunderbirds.

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Thunderbirds are here.......2008-01-12

The original series, digitally remastered, don't believe me? Listen to the launch sequence of Thunderbird 2, the cliff door sounds heavy, it is perfect.

The one problem with the box set from Holland is that all the captions on the menus are in dutch, logical really, but if someone asks me the tech details on any tb craft I will answer in fluent flemish...

There are onscreen subtitles in dutch, but the soundtrack is in english, a great value box set, many tens of pounds cheaper than the uk. great company to deal with, the best on dvd is, but take care, this is not a site for kids to shop on....

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