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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Screen Media
Salesrank: 74645
Released: February 8, 2005 |
| Our Price: $39.95 |
| Used Price: $2.30 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A graduate student (Denise Richards) in need of money is coaxed by her prostitute neighbor (Daryl Hannah) to enter the world’s oldest profession. Based on a best selling novel, their story is interwoven with stunning interviews with working prostitutes, from the highest paid call girls to the truck stop hookers. Often touching, sometimes shocking and always entertaining, this film will impact your view of the people who serve society’s most basic urges.
The Life (Unrated Edition) Reviews:
Boring movie with boring acting 
2009-03-05 - I am usually very open to movies of any variety, but with The Life, I was bored almost instantly. The movie is very slow, and the acting, when the movie focuses on the actors, is very weak and unsubstantial.
I did find the interviews pretty interesting, however, when they interviewed people who lived a life of stripping, prostitution, what have you. It was interesting to see why some people did it, whether they had to to make ends meet, or whether they just enjoyed the work. You can find some interesting perspectives, first-hand, but I would recommend finding a book or something with a little more substance that details the oldest profession in the world, if you wanted to learn more about it.
Not worth the 86 minutes.
2009-02-28 - This was probably the worst movie I have ever seen. I could not even watch the whole thing. the plot line, if you can call it that, was so vague it could not be followed. It was more a bad documentary of prostitution than a movie. To top it off, it wasn't even the movie I was looking for. There is a Canadian film by the same name starring Katharine Isabelle that I was looking for and got this piece of trash instead.
Don't waste your time and money on this. Darryl Hannah and Dinese Richards should be ashamed of making such a film. They are both quality actors and this was so beneath them.
the life of boring
2008-06-30 - The life more like the boring, don't even know how it made the top downloads if you want to see interviews with a bunch of hookers and gigolos from around the world that's what it is there is so little movie part in there save your money
Unexpected 
2008-03-12 - Realize that the G-rated Hannah-Richards storyline involving the friendship of an anthropology student with a prostitute is very short...maybe 20 minutes of the film. Intercut are numerous bits from a series of actual interviews of prostitutes of all types, a few madams, a dominatrix and a couple porn film performers, as well as some clients, a couple porn photographers, and a cold-eyed young Eastern European sex-slaver. The link between the two disparate elements of the film appears to be Richards' character's ongoing interviews for a book on prositution she's doing and, under Hannah's tutelage, a first-hand foray into prostitution when her grant money runs out. As far as I can tell after one viewing, no effort is made to explain why the interviews are done, for the most part, in subtitled Spanish, obviously shot in Europe. Without knowing the background, it appears to me the producers tried to market what would have been a routine documentary with a fictional storyline and some star appeal, whether or not it was taken from a book. If true, it is an interesting marketing ploy. The storyline is disappointing, the interviews good, and the whole treatment was unexpected.
Meditation on prostitution 
2007-08-23 - Half movie fiction, half documentary, this film is presenting male and female prostitutes and porn stars trying to make a distinction between the two professions. In the midst of prostitutes confessions as to how they got into the oldest trade, are two female characters: young graduate student in anthropology (Denise Richards) and her neighbor failed actress/high class prostitute (Darryl Hannah). As every prostitute has a story on what got them into a trade, so do these two major characters. While one is already a high class prostitute, the other is being carefully guided into becoming one. Interesting meditation on how people get into the situations like these and why they get stuck in there.
