Whenever I get enough of action films stuffed with CGI robots, aliens and the like, I go see a nice drama movie. A realistic movie featuring real people that makes it easy for me to relate to their situations. A drama movie that I’m looking forward to is The Girlfriend Experience. It’s coming out real soon.
The Girlfriend Experience is about a girl named Chelsea. She is from Manhattan and she hires herself out to clients, but it’s not just for sex! Chelsea provides her clients with the full girlfriend experience, meaning she talks to them and does fun things with them. She listens to them when they want to talk about their day, etc. Chelsea’s boyfriend is very supportive of her career choice.
Even though Chelsea is making around $2000 per hour for her services, she is not very happy. She keeps thinking that people don’t want her the way she really is. Her clients are always expecting her to take on some sort of role. She can never be herself and this is bothering her very much.
The movie takes place right before the Presidential election of 2008. People are betting on either McCain or Obama. People are talking about bailouts and everything. Meanwhile, Chelsea is trying to keep herself together and has to maintain all of her relationships. The one with her boyfriend, the one with the journalist doing a story on her, the guy who maintains her website, etc.
This drama movie is featuring real life porn star Sasha Grey as Chelsea. In this movie, she is making her mainstream debut. More than enough reason to watch The Girlfriend Experience movie free, I’d say. Newcomers Chris Santos, Peter Zizzo and Timothy Davis are doing a good job in this movie as well. Timothy J. Cox, who’s been around the block a few times, also does a really good job of portraying his character.
The movie The Girlfriend Experience is being released on May 22nd, 2009 in theatres worldwide. It is directed by Steven Soderbergh, who we all know from movies such as Erin Brokovich, but also Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen. If you enjoyed those movies, you will likely not be disappointed with this one.
