What if your therapist knew your deepest secret—and you paid him to listen?
High-priced call girl Lee Churchill examines her life via therapy 'sessions'. Her double life is unknown to her parents, sister and the 'straight' man with whom she falls in love.
Acting
Veronica Hamel's ice-queen vulnerability
Direction
TV-maestro Pearce's surprisingly cinematic close-ups
Writing
Therapy dialogue that actually sounds like therapy
Director
Richard Pearce
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for HBO when 'prestige TV movie' meant something—this rode the post-'American Gigolo' wave of stylish sex-work dramas. Veronica Hamel was fresh off 'Hill Street Blues' heat.
Director Richard Pearce went from this to 'Heartland' and 'The Long Walk Home'—his fascination with women performing labor (emotional, physical, erotic) threads through his whole career.
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