{"id":31384,"date":"2013-05-13T15:48:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T22:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=31384"},"modified":"2021-02-04T14:59:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T21:59:20","slug":"working-girls-the-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=31384","title":{"rendered":"Working Girls, The (1974)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Hired? For what? I don&#8217;t even know what business you&#8217;re in!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Working-Girls-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Working-Girls-Poster-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Working-Girls-Poster-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Working-Girls-Poster-84x128.jpg 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Working-Girls-Poster.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAn itinerant blonde (Sarah Kennedy) arrives in Los Angeles and is given a place to stay by a sign painter (Laurie Rose) whose roommate (Lynne Guthrie) works as a waitress in a strip club. After turning the tables on a woman (Mary Beth Hughes) who&#8217;s hired her to knock off her husband, Kennedy accepts an offer by an eccentric businessman (Solomon Sturges) to be his conversation-partner; meanwhile, Guthrie dates a mobster (Mark Thomas) while moving up the career ladder at her job by both stripping and looking after the club when its manager (Gene Elman) is on vacation; and Rose falls for an itinerant singer (Ken Del Conte) who&#8217;s secretly a jewel fence.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Feminism and Women&#8217;s Issues<\/li>\n<li>Stephanie Rothman Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nStephanie Rothman&#8217;s final film as a director was this lighthearted exploitation flick about a trio of sexy young women seeking love, jobs, friendship, and independence in Los Angeles. As in Rothman&#8217;s previous female-centric films (<a href=\"filmfanatic.org\/?p=31350\"><em>The Student Nurses<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=31364\"><em>Group Marriage<\/em><\/a>), the protagonists here possess a strong feminist sensibility, demonstrating their ability to survive and thrive in a male-dominated universe by sticking together and supporting one another unconditionally &#8212; i.e., Rose immediately offers Kennedy a free place to stay; Kennedy willingly allows Rose to &#8220;steal&#8221; her one-night-stand (Ken Del Conte) as her lover; a colleague (Cassandra Peterson) teaches Guthrie the tricks of the stripping trade; etc. Meanwhile, Kennedy &#8212; who initially strikes one as merely a &#8220;dumb blonde&#8221; &#8212; quickly flouts our expectations by demonstrating a strong sense of logic and head for business. While its weak ensemble storyline ultimately makes this one of Rothman&#8217;s lesser efforts, it&#8217;s certainly worth a look by followers of slyly subversive feminist cinema. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good use of authentic L.A.-area locales<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Working-Girls-Beach.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Working-Girls-Beach.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"416\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Working-Girls-Beach.png 560w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Working-Girls-Beach-128x95.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Working-Girls-Beach-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though it&#8217;s worth a one-time look. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070927\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_6\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigsawlounge.co.uk\/film\/reviews\/v-07-pt3-archive-features-killer-of-sheep-1977-the-working-girls-74-julia-77-etc\/\">Jigsaw Lounge Review (scroll down)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoreader.com\/chicago\/the-working-girls\/Film?oid=1050331\">Chicago Reader Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hired? For what? I don&#8217;t even know what business you&#8217;re in!&#8221; Synopsis: An itinerant blonde (Sarah Kennedy) arrives in Los Angeles and is given a place to stay by a sign painter (Laurie Rose) whose roommate (Lynne Guthrie) works as a waitress in a strip club. After turning the tables on a woman (Mary Beth Hughes) who&#8217;s hired her to knock off her husband, Kennedy accepts an offer by an eccentric businessman (Solomon Sturges) to be his conversation-partner; meanwhile, Guthrie&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=31384\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31384"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68686,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31384\/revisions\/68686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}