Electrifying indie auteur Lodge Kerrigan following up his cult ordeal Clean Shaven explores the desolate existence and paranoid perspective of a women lost in a tangle of high-end prostitution and urban anxiety. Claire Dolan (Katrin Cartlidge Naked Breaking The Waves) an Irish immigrant in Manhattan pays off her debt to a formidable gangster/pimp (Colm Meaney The Snapper Layer Cake) by submitting herself as a call girl to this whims of anonymous businessmen. Craving an ordinary existence and living in cold dread of losing her sense of self Claire attempts to bond with... a quietly troubled cab driver (Vincent D'Onofrio Full Metal Jacket Ed Wood) and remake her life. Both a dramatic exploration of exploitation and a psychological portrait of modern womanhood adrift in a world of violation and rootlessness and filmed by Kerrigan with a poet's awareness of detail Claire Dolan stands as one of the 1990's most significant and affecting works of cinema. [show more]
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Katrin Cartlidge stars in the title role of this feature drama as a young Irish woman working in Manhattan as a high-class prostitute in order to pay off an outstanding debt to pimp Roland Cain (Colm Meaney). Following the death of her mother, Claire makes an attempt to escape this loveless existence and rebuild her life, moving out of the city and going on a few dates with taxi driver Elton Garrett (Vincent D'Onofrio) with a view to eventually becoming a wife and mother. But her past rears its ugly head when Cain tracks her down and insists on payment.
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