On the Doll (2007)

Director:

Thomas Mignone

Writer:

Thomas Mignone (writer)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

This is no play date.

Plot:

A lurid, dark look into the lives of sex workers, where victims of child abuse deal with the consequences later in life. |

Plot Keywords:

Sex | Prostitution | Ambulance | Sexual Abuse | Sex Trade

Cast

Brittany Snow	...	Balery
Josh Janowicz	...	Jaron
Stephen Sowan	...	Tre
Clayne Crawford	...	Wes
Shanna Collins	...	Chantel
James Russo	...	Janitor
Paul Ben-Victor	...	Jimmy Sours
Eddie Jemison	...	Mr. Garrett
Marcus Giamatti	...	Uncle Lou
Angela Sarafyan	...	Tara
Candice Accola	...	Melody
Chloe Domont	...	Courtney
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dave Baez	...	Rick
Tyson Chambers	...	Guy in Store
Ethan Cohn	...	Brian
Germaine De Leon	...	Keith
Timothy Lee DePriest	...	Stevie Planters
Sybil Martinez	...	Waitress
Cameron Moulene	...	Young Jaron
Krysta Noelle	...	Melody's Mom
Nolan North	...	Charlie
Kris Palm	...	Manny
Brett Rickaby	...	Andy
Matt Riedy	...	Pete
Theresa Russell	...	Diane
Jessica Tuck
Elizabeth Uhl	...	Lexi

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

USA:Not Rated

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Doom Incorporated

Movie Connections:

References Eye of the Beholder (2004) (V)

Dark and scary

This film is dark, sick and scary, I assume for the most part it does accurately describe parts of the sex industry and the damaged people who choose and yes I say choose to live in it. I find it very telling that most people in the industry either are screwed up going in or become screwed up while they are a part of it. What is it that attracts damaged people and also what is it that turns descent people into the scum of this earth. OK, back to the film, it seems to represent this lifestyle well, but still not the into the depth of say a Boogie Nights. The actors are of much lower quality and at times you feel that things are on screen just to shock you and not to add anything to the characters or storyline. Then there is what I call the Crash effect, let me explain, since the film Crash came out (one of the best films of all-time if you ask me) many films have tried to imitate the conversation storyline style and none have done it well or anything close to as well as Crash did. This film is no exception of this, it tries to hard to connect it's characters to the point where it just loses any kind of realism factor. Now I don't mind being surprised by a films end or how it connects it's characters when it's good and it works, this is not that. Overall an OK film that does take on some controversial issues without being overly graphic, but the actors and director tried to hard to make it more poignant then it was.