
Jo, allegedly straight, takes Margaret on as her ‘protege’ and shows her the ways of the new profession that she is the most unlikely candidate for. She also encourages her to accept a series of the weirdest dates with clients whose tastes range from most ridiculous to totally bizarre, all of which are hysterically funny. There is also an encounter in a cemetery with a man offering the two hookers a selection of merkins to cover their female pudenda (another learning curve for me too)
The movie reunites director Madeline Olnek with star and co-writer Lisa Haas after their delightful oddball ‘Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same’. They employ the same droll absurdist humor in this lesbian nod/tribute to ‘Midnight Cowboys’ that will again delight a late-night arthouse audience. There are some wonderful clever one-liners such as ‘women don’t fall in love, they just compost together and lose all sense of style and wear identical bad clothes’.
Lisa Haas as Margaret is disarmingly charming and that combined with great performances from a motley crew of performance artists, stand up comedians and local actors makes the piece work so well. My one small criticism is that Olnek has packed all the really funny bits into the first part of the movie and seemed to be running out of steam towards the end.
Good silly fun.