Happy Endings? (2009)
You can't clap with one hand.
81 min
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.
- Release date
- March 1, 2009
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $30,000
Cast
- David Cicilline as Self
- Steven Brown as Self
- Joanne Giannini as Self
- Donna M. Hughes as Self
- Michael A. LoCicero as Monger
- Rhoda Perry as Self
- Dennis Roberts as Self
- Providence Vice as Self
Crew
- Tara Hurley · Director
- Tara Hurley · Writer
- Tara Hurley · Producer
- Tim O'Keefe · Composer
- James Reed · Composer
- Tara Hurley · Cinematographer
- Nick Marcoux · Cinematographer
- Tara Hurley · Editor
- Nick Marcoux · Editor