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"...wickedly good fun...perfect Sunday night candy after a day of handing it out to the kids."
-- New York Post
"The sheer force of its excellent cast--Ellen Burstyn, Annabella Sciorra and Dominique Swain--keeps you watching..."
--Hollywood Reporter
Ellen Burstyn, Annabella Sciorra and Dominique Swain star in this movie based on the true story of three generations of women who own and operate an unconventional family business--a brothel in New Orleans that becomes a target of the FBI.
Tommie (Burstyn) is an old time prostitute who answers the phone and keeps the books at the Canal Street Brothel, the family business owned and operated by her daughter, Jeannette (Sciorra). One of their most popular prostitutes is Jeannette's daughter, Monica (Swain), who has learned the tricks of the trade all too well from her mother and grandmother. Monica hopes to break the cycle by keeping her own small daughter as far away from the family business as possible. However, with business, pleasure and family intertwined, it is difficult for any of the women to escape a destiny of their own design.
When one of their most valued clients, a well-known local doctor, is arrested for insurance fraud, he decides to sell out the ladies in an attempt to beat the rap. Although the women have always maintained a "clean" shop, the doctor accuses them of using the brothel for undercover drug trafficking and racketeering. Under heavy surveillance by the FBI, the women are arrested and threatened with jail time and Monica's child is taken away from her by Child Services. In a desperate struggle to save their family, Tommie, Jeannette and Monica must decide whether or not to reveal the high profile names in their little black book in order to save their own skins.
Rating: TVPG-LV
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