Happy Endings? (2009)
"You can't clap with one hand."
Overview
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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David Cicilline
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Steven Brown
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Joanne Giannini
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Donna M. Hughes
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Michael A. LoCicero
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Rhoda Perry
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Dennis Roberts
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