Happy Endings?

You can't clap with one hand.

Duration: 74 min
Release date: 2009-03-01
IMDB

An intriguing exploration of the Asian massage parlor industry in Providence, RI, where a 25 year-old loophole has made the exchange of sex for money legal - as long as it happens behind closed doors. As the documentary follows a recent Korean immigrant, "Heather", working to operate her spa, the city's mayor fights to change the law that allows her business a legal existence. The film includes interviews with Korean women who work in spas, clients who frequent the spas, politicians from 1980 and today, police, local news footage, radio call-in shows and "voiced" reviews from inter-net escort review boards.

Documentary

Happy Endings?

Recomendation Films

  • Hot Girls Wanted
  • X-Rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All Time
  • The Secret
  • X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All-Time
  • My Mom Jayne
  • Elstree 1976
  • Studio 54
  • Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
  • Tricked: The Documentary
  • Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste
  • Tabloid
  • Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
  • Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
  • Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story
  • The U.S. vs. John Lennon
  • John Candy: I Like Me
  • Girl Model
  • McQueen
  • Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers
  • Sidney

Similar Films

  • West End Jungle
  • Fatal Promises
  • Sexwork & Me
  • Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
  • Lilja 4 real
  • Buy Bye Beauty
  • Last Temptation in Thailand
  • Who Took Johnny
  • Mustang: The House That Joe Built
  • The Dark Side of Chocolate
  • Queer Egypt Under Attack
  • Atlantic City Hookers: It Ain't E-Z Being A Ho'
  • Le schiave esistono ancora
  • Hookers at the Point
  • Storyville - The Naked Dance
  • Gangstresses
  • Chained Girls
  • Whores' Glory
  • Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex Trafficking
  • Oczy diabła

NextFilm 2026