An independent movie about a California housewife who befriends a prostitute. Rachel is clearly a privileged woman who is bored, depressed, or both. She meets a sex worker named McKenna and thinks she can help her, inviting her to stay in her home. Following her curiosity about McKenna's life, Rachel goes with her to a session and is disturbed by seeing the reality of prostitution. She hurts McKenna by treating her like a prostitute for the first time, not allowing her to babysit her and her friends' children. McKenna acts out by coming on to the husbands while the wives are out separately, and sleeps with at least one of them. Somehow this turns everyone else's life upside down, but Rachel seems somehow revitalized. I am not sure if I understood everything that was going on, or what the movie might have been saying about any particular character, but it was well acted and filmed. I'll give it 6/10.
Afternoon Delight
2013
Action / Comedy / Drama
Afternoon Delight
2013
Action / Comedy / Drama
Plot summary
Rachel is a quick-witted and lovable stay-at-home mom, frustrated with the responsibilities of her son's preschool, a lacklustre sex life and a career that's gone kaput. One night, intent on spicing up their marriage, she visits an LA strip club with her husband, where she meets McKenna, a stripper she adopts as her live-in nanny.
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Confusing objective of lead characters
This movie is not for those conservative people who don't want to see the lead characters doing wrong. First of all, this movie shows all-in-all upper class characters and hard to relate to. Secondly, they don't act ideally. Rachel needs something to kill her boredom, so she goes again to the strip again (why?) in daytime. There she "accidentally" sees her lap dance giver (McKenna) and communicates with her. McKenna is a confident prostitute who chose this profession because she wants to and not needs to, although she is shown to be broke and homeless. Rachel trusts her but her trust dwindles when she sees her with her client (why?). So McKenna shows her what a whore can do and try to seduce her and friends' husbands (Why?) and proudly leaves her house. Both of these lead characters are not likable and viewer are never sympathetic to them. Its hard to understand their point of view, especially McKenna's. So, the viewer cannot connect to the story. I don't know if the writer want to show feminism and women empowerment via. McKenna, but if so, this expression is not obvious. This movie leaves me confused what it wanted to say. So, in my opinion, skip it.