Three pre-teen boys, curious about sex and the female body, diligently save their dollars and cents with high hopes of paying a prostitute willing to bare it all. Instead, when these suburban innocents travel to the big city to fulfill their adolescent dreams, they almost get mugged. But the quick intervention of street-wise hooker V (Melanie Griffith) saves them. And not only that... she does a strip-tease so that they'll have succeeded in their mission, and then drives them safely home. But already one of the boys perceives the heart of gold that lies beneath her tawdry exterior -- and he's decided to marry her off to his widowed dad (Ed Harris).
A romantic comedy about a young boy who, along with his friends, saves his milk money to buy a peek at a beautiful naked prostitute. When she saves him from a mugger he falls in love with more than her body and thinks she would be perfect for his widowed science teacher dad.
Some of the music in the Paramount Home Video release (#32973) is different from the music in the original theatrical release.
Released in the USA August 31, 1994.
Copyright 1994 Paramount Pictures.
Filmed in DeLuxe.
Rated BBFC 12 by the British Board of Film Classification.
Excerpt: "And don't take your clothes off for money!" -- Frank (Michael Patrick Carter) to V (Melanie Griffith)
"Frank was telling me what you do. Do you enjoy it?" -- Dad (Ed Harris) to V (Melanie Griffith)
"Dad, you always say it's not what you do, it's who you are." -- Frank (Michael Patrick Carter) to Dad (Ed Harris)
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
Director of Photography
David Watkin: British Director Of Photography
Production Designer
Paul Sylbert: Art Director/Screenwriter
Costume Designer
Theoni V. Aldredge: Costume designer
Review 1:
"...[A] coming-of-age sweetness..."
Source: USA Today
p.5D 08/31/1994
Review 2:
"...Griffith has a mix of vulnerability, dignity and moxie that persuades you to believe in her no matter what....Benjamin brings to the film a graceful buoyancy and a perceptive affection for its key people that holds it together..."
Source: Los Angeles Times
p.F2 08/31/1994
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