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This might be my favorite love interest in a movie ever


Danielle was so sweet and just indescribably adorable, and Elisha Cuthbert gives about the most capturing performance of her career, and one of the most so ever. It's more than that her character is attracrive, she just makes you legitimately happy. Lighted me up after a so-so day, and even now I can't stop thinking about her. It's like you wish she was real.

Does anyone else feel the same way?

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Nope, I took it the exact opposite. I found her gross. I think sex workers are gross and I couldn't buy the plot of why this kid was into her at all. She takes money to have sex with complete strangers and have her most intimate parts filmed for people to jack off too. She let men she didn't care about inside of her body...for money. Well, at least the fictional sex worker she played did. I spent the entire film not buying the teen boys fantasy. Being in love with a prostitute. I didn't find her adorable at all. I found her character gross and couldn't imagine having any romantic interest in a sex worker ever.

I suspended belief and enjoyed the plot but I didn't really buy into it like the producers/writers wanted. I know Hollywood likes to write these sweet wonderful sex workers just like in Pretty Women but I don't buy that for a second.

I would have liked her character if she weren't a sex worker who'd had sex on camera with countless men for money. Since she was I didn't like her character at all.

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She takes money to have sex with complete strangers and have her most intimate parts filmed for people to jack off too. She let men she didn't care about inside of her body...for money.


Well said. While Elisha is cute and all, her character didn't attract me, but rather made me want to HEAD TO THE HILLS.

I wouldn't have a problem, however, dating/marrying a genuinely repentant (ex)sex worker, if the chemistry was right. After all, everyone makes mistakes.

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You're a f king loser. You probably beat off to all types of porn.

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You're the "f king loser" if this utterly juvenile reply is your first post on Movie Chat -- not exactly putting your best foot forward, are you?

So what is it about my post that incites your fierce ire and makes me a "f king loser"? (lol)

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It was my second, not first.

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I'd want to conduct a full panel of STD tests, but generally I wouldn't be opposed to the prospect. A lady's got to work, right?

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But she'd have to get the full panel STD tests like five days a week, every week, until she quit.

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That's on you for dating someone who keeps swimming in the pool, amigo.

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