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Retrospective
Streetwalkin’
SHE DROPPED OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL THIS MORNING … TONIGHT SHE’S A TIMES SQUARE HOOKER.
The first film released under Roger Corman’s new production company, Concorde Pictures, is also director Joan Freeman’s feature debut. A fast-paced, raw and brutal glimpse into the world of sex work and forced prostitution in 1980s New York.
Barely has the opening title sequence ended when Cookie (Melissa Leo), a desperate runaway, falls into the clutches of the smooth-talking Duke (Dale Midkiff), who forces her into prostitution. It is not long before Duke, a volatile psychopath, beats another sex worker, Heather (Deborah Offner), to death when she tries to leave him. Terrified, Cookie decides to find herself another pimp (played by Leon Robinson), setting off an all-out war with Midkiff...