The Client List

For the ultimate girls' night, rent the Lifetime movie The Client List starring one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, Jennifer Love Hewitt. It was extremely successful during its initial airing and spawned a television spinoff (but with new characters and supporting cast members), and Jennifer was even nominated for a Golden Globe. It was very well-deserved - she did a lot more than just prance around in lingerie. Complete with a fantastic Texas accent, she shows frustration, desperation, disgust, self-loathing, fear, and sorrow. She doesn't usually take on roles like this, so it's really great to see her show her acting chops. Finally, she's more than just a pretty face.

But what a face! One wonderful thing about Jennifer Love Hewitt movies is you know she's always going to look beautiful. She'll be all dolled up in makeup and false eyelashes, show off her gorgeous, thick, wavy hair, and wear beautiful, figure-hugging clothes - unlike some beautiful women who continually grunge themselves up in their movies (Keira Knightley, I'm looking at you). So in The Client List, you'll see her parade in a series of low-cut summer dresses, and yes, also cute lingerie sets while she works at her "massage parlor".

Another refreshing aspect of this movie is the way it doesn't glamorize prostitution. Richard Gere is not one of Jennifer's clients. She services middle-aged, unattractive married men, and she hates every aspect of her job except the cash salary. There's nothing worse than Hollywood encouraging impressionable young girls to make the wrong choices, and this movie shows that Jennifer's last resort is a bad one. This is a cautionary tale, not a charming how-to guide of how to become Mrs. Wall Street. I would definitely recommend this movie to watch with a bunch of your girlfriends or sisters. It's fun, smart, and girly without being unrealistic.

Actually a good movie, especially if you like Jennifer Love Hewitt. It kept me entertained and I didn't find any parts to be boring. Drama, action, excitement, heartbreak, humor, this movie has it all! All actors and actresses play memorable roles. A plausible story, based on a real life incident. Hewitt does a great job playing the lead character, displaying all types of emotion, and of course looking as beautiful as ever! Being a male I was expecting this to be a depressing "chick-flick" tear jerker, especially since it's on Lifetime, but instead I found myself entertained through out the whole movie! Here's hoping Jennifer Love Hewitt continues to put out projects such as this. Highly recommended!

There are a lot of very pretty faces out there that cannot act at all. It has been a while since I have seen Jennifer in anything. I was really glad to see that she can act a lot better that some of the other bigger box office cuties out there. The acting ability of some of those other hotties is insulting. I found this movie interesting in that Jennifer portrayed a girl who in desperation tried to do something to rescue her and her families situation without realizing the outcomes. Very human situation and she showed real sensitive emotions right from the beginning, wanting to run the other way being turned off by the whole idea and then being consumed buy desperation and greed as is a major story of what is really going on in this country. She played the part very well, so much so that I wanted to take time out and write this review. This is not easy subject matter and lots of people will be reviewing it personally rather than subjectively. The flick is not perfect, but think about how it would have been without Jennifer? She made the movie, and it really grabbed my attention with all the real emotion in the situation between her and her husband and having to try and start over in life. This is a typical real life story with a bit sticky subject matter. But Jennifer did a great acting job with it. For what it was it was well done!

I went into this just looking to kill a couple of hours, but really it isn't bad for what it is. Yes, some of the Texas traits are stretched ("hotter than a fur coat in Marfa"), but not as much as most Texas movies and some of the people and scenery actually felt familiar. (I'm from Texas.)

I found the main character to be believable. She was not portrayed as a victim or as a demon, but as someone who made a bad decision in difficult times and then continued that bad decision due to her own flaws. Watching her when she feels guilt seems very real to me. Her mother was also a fully developed character and her friends and some of the other characters had some moving scenes. I thought it was well acted and well paced. Two of the last scenes were hard to believe and were quick reminders that this was a TV movie.

I'd definitely rate this movie as mediocre all around. I've seen stories like this all the time. So&So starts off doing something morally wrong for money to get out of debt or to buy something they desperately want, then by the time they're out of debt or have everything they wanted and are at a good stopping point, they're addicted to the money until the they hit a wall, like police arriving to arrest them. Stories like this are a dime a dozen, even Pepper Ann had a similar episode to this, involving using her friend as a slave to cut lawns for her, so she can use the money to buy roller-skates. I think even The Weekenders did an episode similar to this, involving selling cheaply made, yet over-priced slushys to people without a food serving license. It's a very old plot, whether this movie was based off a true story or not. As for the acting, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Cybil Shepard do their best, but the script is pretty bad. Also, this movie is TV-14 on Lifetime, so yeah, a lot of innuendo but nothing too bad.