The Escort
The Escort
NR | 05 November 2015 (USA)
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Desperate for a good story, a sex-addicted journalist throws himself into the world of high-class escorts when he starts following a Stanford-educated prostitute.

Reviews
Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.
Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
Michael Ledo This is your odd "Pretty Woman" type of romantic comedy that is perhaps more drama than either genre. This is not your dumb sleazy "50 Shades of Shasha Gray" escort type film.The story centers on Mitch (Michael Doneger) who is a journalist and writes obituaries. However "Obituary Writer" is not a film title people will flock to. Mitch is also a sex addict who uses a sex app on his phone to hook up for fast nameless sex. His behavior gets him in trouble and he gets fired from his job. He applies for another job, but needs to present a printable article, i.e. not obits in order to get hired. He meets up with Natalie (Lyndsy Fonesca) an educated escort. She allows him to follow her around so he can write a story about her....just follow the formula.Bruce Campbell comes in at 48 minutes into the film as the rich father of Mitch. Rachel Resheff plays Mitch's potty mouth sister. The film has humor, but is not laugh out loud funny. It is a light drama that keeps you engaged even as you know how it ends.Guide: F-Bomb, sex, remarkably no nudity.
phd_travel I'm a fan of Lyndsy Fonseca from Nikita and Kick Ass and her charm keeps this comic romance movie watchable. She plays a Stanford educatd escort who meets a journalist / sex addict who decides to write a story about her. There is reason why she is an escort.Following a tried and tested indie romance formula, the 2 flawed characters fall in love - a little drama ensues and then there is a happy ending.There haven't been too many happy hooker fairy tale stories since Pretty Woman. This is many years later so things are a tad less innocent and a bit more realistic but the tone of the show is light and comical in parts. That doesn't completely cover the ickiness of the premise but neither did Pretty Woman.
ElliesWonder There were rave reviews attracted me to watch, however the outcome bum me out. The movie looks like a salute to Pretty Woman (1990) , but it is more quiet and less sexy, Escort more like a tacky cheesy romantic story, no fun no concepts. The plot is very slow, it barely kept my interest to finish.The biggest loophole of this movie is the name, the Stanford graduated escort said she couldn't find a job with her scandal name? Then why can't she change her name? Just fill out a petition, millions people changing their names for different reasons. Totally no senses plot writing, almost embarrassed my IQ, I doubted myself why would I watch such movie. Beside, many people share a same name. Can't find a job is more like a excuse because her tax free money is easier to make.Lastly, I don't like the shaking camera movement. I always want to jump into the screen, and settled the camera!
TonyDood I chose this film while randomly perusing Amazon Prime's lists, a strange new occupation I find a lot of us pursuing of late. I was looking for something in the vein of a Sebastian Gutierrez indie flick. I chose the movie based entirely on the description and poster, something I never do any more as my time is too precious to gamble on a bad movie. I was rewarded with a pleasant, if unremarkable, film that I'd definitely recommend, but for reasons other than the obvious ones. It wasn't bad and had a decent story but that's not what prompted me to write a review about it.In downtown LA a young woman is earning her keep as a high-priced sexual escort and a young aspiring writer has lost his job and is looking for a good story. He's also addicted to an "instant hookup" app and ends up meeting our lady of the night in a bar when he thinks she's his next match. They form a partnership where he gets his story (about her) in return for watching over her while she deals with unsavory men, and if you can't guess what happens next this is probably the first movie you've ever seen.I found the first 20 minutes or so enticing; the cast was attractive, the dialog crisp, the acting sit-com level or higher and since it opened with a woman having "specialty" sex and the male lead tramping around, it seemed like a film that was going to have an edge to it. It doesn't, and in fact it ends up being lighter fare, topically, than anything you'd see on prime time TV, but it passed the time. I started checking my phone at the half-hour mark and never really engaged again after that but I didn't turn it off either.What really sold me on this film, and has kept me thinking about it for days, was the soundtrack. Not since the 80s or 90s can I think of a movie where I was so intrigued by the music playing underneath scenes and transitions, and the way it flavored my experience of this film. I've spent a lot of time in downtown LA and thereabouts and with the great photography and soundtrack the filmmakers really got the "feel" of the area right. It's not as easy a thing to do as one might imagine; making a film that accurately portrays a location isn't as simple as just planting a camera there, you have to get the feel of it right.I'm also intrigued by films that are focused on sex but don't actually include any sexual content. There are a couple of fully-clothed "humping" scenes in this movie but it's all fairly innocent and unobtrusive. It reminds you that a steamy sex scene with full nudity isn't always necessary to make a point. Films made before the ratings game came into play in the late 60s or so had to rely on technique rather than bared skin to convey sexual tension. Again...how it "feels" rather than simply how rutting looks when you focus a camera on it. It's not a common practice any more and I have no qualms about showing sexuality and nudity, it's just intriguing when it ISN'T shown, especially in a film that is ostensibly about a woman who sells her sexuality for a living.Lastly, I found it interesting that the movie seems to take place in a world populated mostly by Caucasians. It's not something I really thought about until I saw this movie; the idea that these people dwell downtown but rarely encounter any racial (or gender, for that matter) diversity seems odd. Again, having spent a lot of time in these locations it's unlikely to say the least. It's not a judgment call, I'm wasn't offended, just intrigued...had the film been made 15-20 years ago it wouldn't have even crossed my mind.Anyway, worth a look, which is actually quite an accomplishment.