
At 17, high-school junior Shirley Lyner is thinking about college and running a babysitting service that provides teen call girls to the dads of young children. In a long flashback, we see what brought her from being a babysitter to organizing and running the service. It starts with Michael, the father of children she baby-sits. A cup of coffee on the way home from his house, a night visit to a train yard, and one thing leads to another. Shirley can be ruthless, and tension b... (Full plot summary below)
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At 17, high-school junior Shirley Lyner is thinking about college and running a babysitting service that provides teen call girls to the dads of young children. In a long flashback, we see what brought her from being a babysitter to organizing and running the service. It starts with Michael, the father of children she baby-sits. A cup of coffee on the way home from his house, a night visit to a train yard, and one thing leads to another. Shirley can be ruthless, and tension builds when some of the clients take the girls to a mountain cabin and bring drugs. Then, one of the girls tries to freelance. Can this end well: is it a tragedy in the making? Do we all have secrets?
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| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohThere's little real wit here and, as far as teen-chick antics go, it's definitely no Heathers or Clueless, not even Cruel Intentions. |
| FilmJerk.comEdward HavensIs Ross trying to mimic Michael Haneke, daring his audience to be disgusted by the very titillating premise which probably brought them to the movie in the first place? |
| NewsBlazePrairie MillerA pathetic excuse to trot out a procession of teenage girls in the raw, performing graphic simulated sex acts with your basic suburban family man drooling all over himself. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenDebut director David Ross's provocative debut puts us squarely into the lives of financially strapped high school girls who find that the end (paying for college) justifies the means. |
| Jam! MoviesLiz BraunYou can see the potential in this off-kilter coming-of-age story, and it's a pity it never quite adds up. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kamal AL-SolayleeIf Leguizamo imports a hint of pathos into his performance, Waterston adds a dollop of menace to hers, delivering another of Ross's attacks on what separates girls from men. In this world, women are their own worst enemy. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid NusairA striking yet thoroughly uneven debut from David Ross... |
| Planet Sick-BoyJon PopickUltimately plays out as weakly as an actual adult film. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyWriter/director David Ross crosses a line into gratuitous exploitation by accentuating semi-pornographic settings to incite mixed emotions. The sensual side effect could work as a way of bringing an audience into the story's cruel discussion on human natu |
| Toronto StarSusan WalkerThe script has a stale air, like something that was doing the rounds for a long time before David Ross found backers to make a film out of it. |