This Girl's Life
| This Girl's Life | |
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| Directed by | Ash |
| Written by | Ash |
| Produced by | Ash Daniel M. Berger Rob Weston |
| Starring | Juliette Marquis James Woods Kip Pardue Rosario Dawson Cheyenne Silver |
| Cinematography | Alessandro Zezza |
| Music by | Jussi Tegelman |
Production company | Muse Productions |
| Distributed by | Miracle Mile Films |
Release dates |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
This Girl's Life is a 2003 film written and directed by Ash[1] and produced by Ash alongside Daniel M. Berger. Rob Weston serves as executive producer. The story concerns the life of Moon, a porn star played by Juliette Marquis.[1] The film also stars James Woods, Michael Rapaport, Rosario Dawson, Cheyenne Silver and Kip Pardue.[1][2][3]
Plot
[edit]Moon (Juliette Marquis) is a down-to-earth young woman who happens to be one of the most popular adult film stars. She finds no fault in using her sexuality as a means of profit. While she is in the process of renewing her contract, her personal life remains a delicate issue as her father (James Woods) suffers from Parkinson's disease and a blind date (Kip Pardue) remains hesitant to get close to Moon after learning of her profession.
Moon's friend Jessie hires her to fidelity test her boyfriend, Moon agrees and decides to offer the same to other women. One of the women hires her to test her husband and Moon goes in to pretend to buy a car from the husband, a man named Terry (Michael Rapaport), and offers sex for a deal on the car. When he agrees to it, they start fooling around and she excuses herself to the bathroom, and sneaks out the bathroom window. Terry catches her before she drives off. When asking why she left she inadvertently reveals she was hired to test him by his wife. Terry gets angry, begging her not to tell his wife, saying he'll pay more. When she does not agree to remain quiet he repeatedly violently hits her car with a pipe, and threatening her.
The film cuts to scenes of a younger Moon starting out in the business. Moon starts to re-evaluate her life with the idea of starting over afresh and tells Aronson, who was interviewing two new potential porn stars, that she's an adult now and has to make better choices with herself and life. Aronson wishes her well.
After Moon leaves Aronson's place she is approached by Terry who is obviously angry that Moon told his wife about his infidelity. He attacks and threatens her with a knife saying she owes him, that she ruined his life and she needs to make it up to him. Moon tells him she quit the business. He throws her to the ground and forces himself on her. When she fights him, Terry tells her he followed her and he knows all about her. He threatens her father's safety, telling her to stop fighting him. He tries to rape her but Moon headbutts him breaking his nose and throwing him off of her. She runs out and as the film ends she goes over to see Kip.
Cast
[edit]- Juliette Marquis - Moon
- James Woods - Pops
- Kip Pardue - Kip
- Tomas Arana - Aronson
- Michael Rapaport - Terry
- Rosario Dawson - Martine
- Isaiah Washington - Shane
- Ioan Gruffudd - Daniel
- Kam Heskin - Jessie
- Sung-Hi Lee - Kobi
- Sherrie Rose - Nurse
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Leonard, John (May 21, 2005). "She Shtups to Conquer". New York. New York.
- ^ "A MARQUIS-QUALITY STAR Gives role XXX-tra depth". New York Daily News. August 19, 2004. Archived from the original on October 14, 2009.
- ^ Holden, Stephen (28 November 1997). "FILM REVIEW; In Uniform She's King For a Day". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
