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learned about prostitutes being good people. Often those women are forced into this line
of business by bad luck and actually try to achieve higher things. In his first full length film Jonathan Gems tells the story of three prostitutes. Francesca (Delpy), fragile and pretty but permanently on coke flees her husband Mike (Dempsey) after her miscarriage, Dolly (Gidley) is actually a lesbian and is just trying to get enough money together to be able to start her own restaurant and Mimi (Cates) is following the Lord. Sounds pretty melodramatic but the spectator is always confronted with the obsessions of the sex-hungry men. Pimp Tony (Baldwin) always finds suitors who have strange wishes: Michael York needs a wedding ceremony to get horny as the bride's father and Vincent Perez take pictures of the muses in antique clothes. The Treat is a comedy of black humour, showing the human side of the perhaps most human line of business.
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51 | CAST Daniel Baldwin...................................Tony Yancy Butler....................................Wendy Seymour Cassel...............The Councilman Georgina Cates...................................Mimi Julie Delpy..................................Francesca Patrick Dempsey.................................Mike Pamela Gidley.....................................Dolly Fenton Lawless.....................................Leo Alfred Molina.................................Colonel Vincent Perez......................................Pierre Michael York......................................Simon CREDITS Directed by.........................Jonathan Gems Screenplay
by....................Jonathan Gems Premiered at the 5th Oldenburg International Film Festival in September 1998 Also appeared on Russian TV on October 11, 1998 Video available
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