Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

vchimpanzee Elektra and Holly are in jail about to be hanged for a crime they didn't commit. Their solution to the problem involves taking off most of their clothes.Actually, Elektra is a porn star and Holly is an actress and a hooker And when Holly goes to her other job working with Bambi, something undesirable almost happens that cannot be mentioned on broadcast TV, though some of the words left in explain the situation clearly enough.Elektra has a doctor's appointment in a tall building. There, she finds out she is pregnant, and Nick is the likely father. We'll learn about him later. Also in the same building is Doris, who is on the phone with her troubled sister Addy.Addy and her adorable daughter Charlotte are in therapy. Today it is Charlotte's turn to visit Maxine. Maxine's husband Travis has a terrible secret which will turn Maxine's life upside down, but for now let's worry about Charlotte, who believes she sees ghosts.Doris and Elektra get stuck in the elevator together. At first they hate each other, but with a serious wildfire problem, the fire department's first priority is not them. So they have to adapt to the situation, take off most of their clothes because of the heat, and learn about each other in well-written, deep and disturbing discussions.Cora is the flight attendant who flirts with rock star Nick, while Maggie is her level-headed partner. Something terrible happens on the flight and they have to figure out what to do.Holly and Bambi take Maxine to a bar to deal with their problems by drinking. Maxine makes it home all right, though she is quite drunk, and she must eventually confront Travis, who gets her undressed.Holly, who is upset no one remembered her birthday, ends up spending the night at the apartment of the bartender (I don't remember her name) and the bartender's lesbian masseuse roomie Darby. Darby really helps Holly feel better about her problems (no, that's NOT what I mean, though Holly does take her clothes off).Some of the women solve their problems, and some of them are worse off. But it's an enjoyable process watching them work things out.There are lots of great performances here, and good writing, and lots of laughs even though some scenes are quite serious.Connie Britton shows us here why she is one of the few actresses on broadcast TV who can get nominated for an Emmy. Plus she still looks so beautiful; Rayna James in 2015 is starting to show her age. Adrianne Palicki, who worked with Britton on "Friday Night Lights" (but doesn't have any scenes with her here), shows how talented she is when Holly, who is normally a "dumb blonde" with very clever writing, turns out to be smart about some things. But one of those scenes apparently showing Holly to be smart is actually showing showing how clueless she is. The writing there is great.Carla Gugino as Elektra and Emmanuelle Chriqui as Bambi both do well in their roles. I can't remember the bartender's name but the actress does a good job. She's very helpful.Sarah Clarke makes a very good therapist but may soon end up needing therapy herself.Cameron Richardson as the pleasant and friendly masseuse also stands out. I don't recall the name for this technique, but several characters experience seeing numerous images in only a few seconds. The slow-motion button on TiVo is your friend.Do NOT leave during the closing credits. I wondered why I didn't remember Joseph Gordon-Levitt when I saw his name. Bert Rodriguez interviews our two porn stars AFTER the credits, and that's a must-see!This whole movie is really worth seeing.

itamar-c This is my first review and my English is very poor so I won't say much. I bought this DVD some time ago along with other ones and I never cared about watching it.. so, maybe just to convince myself I didn't spent my money for nothing, I decided to give it a chance. OK, I just finished watching it right now, and I have to say I'm completely astonished. This movie is brilliant. It's clever, smart, fun, touching.. it made me laugh and it made me cry. I'll definitely watch it again soon and I'll recommend it to as many people as I can. I won't say more because as I said my English isn't good and I don't want to mess things up, but I can say this movie just become one of my all-time favorites.

mistabobdobolina Rather incredibly, Gutierrez marketed this movie as giving women in Hollywood more interesting things to do than be "the good girlfriend" or "the bad girlfriend." Well, technically that's true. For example, a third of women in a Gutierrez film can apparently be hookers-with-a-heart-of-gold. Yet more of them can be sexually-available flight attendants and masseuses. A smaller fraction get to be ostensible professionals of some (usually unspecified) kind... although actually all of their story lines turn out to revolve around men, which is only true of one of each among the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold and sexually-available service-industry types, so I guess Advantage: Team Hooker there. Oh, and there's room for a precocious child in there, too, who's like all totally quirky and stuff.Okay, so maybe it's not exactly promising as a progressive vision for female characters: well-written, well-acted, given believable dialogue and backstory and interesting situations to work with, this could have still been rescued. No such luck, unfortunately. Gutierrez strikes out.I mean, the actors certainly do their best. But the characters and situations they're given are either dreary clichés or hilariously forced and unbelievable, more often in a lame way than in a funny way. (Yes, it's comedy, but comedy still has to have believable characters in order to work.) Worst of all is that so many of the characters are unbelievably dumb, to an extent that we're basically being invited to laugh _at_ them and by extension at how ridiculous women are: the airheaded blonde flight attendant who agonizes for all of sixty seconds before cheating on her fiancé in an airplane bathroom; neurotic woman-in-a-nice-suit Doris who, in spinning out her absurd life story to a total stranger while they're both stuck in an elevator -- after they've stripped down to their panties, natch -- actually utters the line "I loved him so much I didn't even know I had a meth problem"; Doris' pathetic sister, who takes her daughter to therapy sessions so she can boff her therapist's hubby in an office literally just down the hall.And then there's Holly Rocket.There was actually a time when characters like Holly Rocket were a staple of "comedy": the beginning and end of the "joke" was always that this was a bimbo so dumb she could barely be relied upon to spell her own name. Goldie Hawn made her bones cranking out caricatures like this... four decades ago. It's pretty heartbreaking to watch the undeniably talented Adrianne Palicki go through the same grind in 2009, in a movie that sells itself as empowerment.And Holly Rocket is if anything a far dumber and more insulting caricature than the bimbo-types of yore. She doesn't just speak in malapropisms: she's literally too stupid to know how to get out of the path of a moving car. She doesn't know when her own birthday is. Her poignant backstory involves the one time in her childhood when she let her dog give her head, as a result of which her entire character arc is about her quest to learn how to go down on another woman without puking. More than stupid, she's contemptibly weak, as the film carefully points up when she orders a Pina Colada at a bar, the bartender comes back with a beer instead, and she doesn't say anything. Holly's biggest punchline, right at the end of the film, comes when she shows an astonishing ability to do trigonometry in her head -- certainly a surprising skill for someone who can't remember their own birthday. "Wow!" says Elektra Luxx. "You could get a Ph.D!" "I know," says Holly. "That's why I get tested twice a year." Hyuk! Hyuk! Because she's still just rilly stupid, get it? There's plenty else wrong with this film, and despite the best efforts of Carla Gugino, not enough else right with it to rescue it. But it's Holly Rocket that signals there's something not just bad or clichéd, but rankly misogynistic and creepy going on here. Her character is insulting in such an over-the-top and weird way that it jangles the nerves; and put bluntly, it's hard to come away without the impression that Holly is what Gutierrez *really* thinks of women. Pass.

imdb-5096 This movie has porn stars in it. This can only be cheesy, right?Well, there were some good movies around this subject - remember Boogie Nights?In certain ways, this movie is better behaved than many others that deal with sexual topics: Not a single naked nipple, as far as I could see. And the sex talk is pretty honest.There is a lot of comic relief in it: Holly, the "dumb" sexy girl provokes a few good laughs, e.g. when she asks whether she's an immortal whore, while meaning immoral.The acting is professional - nothing bothered me about it. The story has a few nice twists, and kept me interested right from the start.Overall, this is a movie that not only sports a few sexy looking women but also is quite entertaining bringing up a few real-life situations (mother-child relationships, adultery, responsibility, trust, truth and porn).It's a movie about women, and the love for them. In a way, it reminds me of Almodovar's films.Give it a try. You won't be embarrassed!