Amazingly realistic story that starts out as a grim but heartening story of a young girl's attempt to reform her lazy mother. Having just left the hospital, 'Ruthie' wiggles into her hot pants and prepares to go back to turning tricks no the street.
Ruthie is too old to get a job in a proper brothel and her street customers frequently give her physical violence in lieu of a tip. These are more than enough reasons for teen daughter 'Or' to step and 'play' parent by locking her mother inside the apartment and forcing to start a new job as a cleaning lady.
Both actresses give compelling performances but the more 'Or' does for Ruthie the more she realizes that the 'apple doesn't fall far from the tree' in terms of seeing the opportunities that prostitution offers a young woman working as a pot scrubber in a restaurant.
This is not a formula movie like "thirteen" and has both humor and poignancy galore. Check it out!!!
Ruthie is too old to get a job in a proper brothel and her street customers frequently give her physical violence in lieu of a tip. These are more than enough reasons for teen daughter 'Or' to step and 'play' parent by locking her mother inside the apartment and forcing to start a new job as a cleaning lady.
Both actresses give compelling performances but the more 'Or' does for Ruthie the more she realizes that the 'apple doesn't fall far from the tree' in terms of seeing the opportunities that prostitution offers a young woman working as a pot scrubber in a restaurant.
This is not a formula movie like "thirteen" and has both humor and poignancy galore. Check it out!!!