Sadie Smith (Jenna Dewan) moves to a small New Hampshire town to start a dance and fitness studio with a massage parlor in the back. The movie opens with the studio being raided and her being arrested. Her saloon neighbor April Macintosh (Jennifer Irwin) apologizes. April is a friend, her first client, and her landlord. Carol Martin is the town's gossipy reporter.
The story is laid out by the thirty minute mark. This would work better with more irreverence. This should start with April as the lead. Jennifer Irwin is the best actor in the cast anyways and she's hilarious. They need to use this strength and make this a comedy. Sadly, this is airing on Lifetime and there is no room for outside-the-box thinking. This should be a black comedy. It's just not for Lifetime and April's moral whiplash really set my head spinning.
Plot summary
Leading a double life as a fitness instructor and a prostitution ring with a client list, Sadie receives an anonymous tip and soon after her studio is raided by authorities, With only one question: who exactly was on the client list?
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August 25, 2023 at 09:24 PM
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I loved this movie!
Despite a title that couldn't help but make me think of Olivia Newton-John, I loved this movie. The best thing about it was it was sex-positive and showed a woman who was fiercely independent and in control of her own destiny freely and unashamedly taking up a career in sex work and doing it as op-enly and proudly as the law allowed. I even liked the fact that welters Margaret Froley and Kelly Fullerton raised the question of whether prostitution should be illegal at all. Given that most Lifetime depictions of prostitution show the girls (and sometimes guys) involved in it as human-trafficking victims or people tricked into it by abusive, exploitative pimps masquerading as boyfriends (a pattern all too common in real life as well), it's nice to see a film that presents sex work as a reasonable choice for a liberated woman. I also loved 41-year-old Jenna Dewan's performance as Sadie; at a time in life when most women are considered past their prime physically, her overall sexiness and clear comfort with her body make her believable as a woman whom some men would freely and happily pay to have sex with her.