Someone punch me in the face...

to compare this "mockumentary" to "klute" is not only unfair, but not logical.
"klute" is stylistically different from this film. and jane fonda plays a 'call girl,' not a 'street walker.' the two films simply show different (fictionalized) realities.
and, you might not like theresa russell's acting, but you have to admit that she's in a pretty bad position trying to present a portrait of the character she's portraying.
i've also seen "pretty woman"...once. never had any desire to see a second time, because it's nonsensical, "cleaned up" (hollywoodish) fable of a prostitute, which is good, i guess, as far as it has anything to do with the tragedies that most of those women have to live. i, however, like russell's acting, and have seen "whore" 2 or 3 times over the years since it first came out. just so happens, though, that i'm also a big fan of ken russell...

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I thought the film was quite good.

Theresa Russell is hot!!

“Down-on-her-luck streetwalker” is a redundancy. This movie was great. They did their homework, e.g., customers are called “tricks” and not “Johns” (only people who are not in The Life—“squares”—call them Johns). The best part for me, though, was the theater marquis advertising the film, Lair of the White Worm, directed by Ken Russell, who also directed Whore! White Worm is 1 of my favorite films. I quite enjoyed this one, as well. They showed that pimps have Zero redeeming qualities. Not for nothing, the scene in the upscale French restaurant, where her pimp berated her for her ignorance but in fact paraded his own stupidity (MUCH worse than ignorance) was simultaneously droll and almost heartbreaking, and THAT is hard to do. My heart went out to her, and I wanted to shit down his throat.