A comedy drama about a few days in the lives of a group of "working girls" in Reno, Nevada. “The Ranch” is a legally operated brothel that operates under the careful watch of state health inspectors (who insist on weekly medical check-ups) and the semi-benevolent leadership of Mary, the manager. While the women on staff don't have to dodge the law like their comrades elsewhere, that doesn't mean they don't have their problems.
Direction
Susan Seidelman finds humanity in the mundane bureaucracy of sex work
Writing
Treats brothel as boring workplace — the radical subversion
Director
Susan Seidelman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed at the actual Mustang Ranch, Nevada's most famous legal brothel, shortly after its reopening under new management.
Seidelman intended this as a companion piece to her 1982 film 'Smithereens' — both examine women surviving on society's margins through radically different tones.
US
