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    Personal Services (1987)

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    Christine Painter (Julie Walters) is a working-class single mother struggling to make ends meet who opens her own brothel with the aid of an experienced prostitute and a transvestite RAF officer.

    This is a gently witty, if curiously coy, attempt by director Terry Jones to re-create the odd career of real-life “luncheon voucher madam” Cynthia Payne.

    Julie Walters is a good choice to portray Payne’s droll matter-of-factness about the sexual proclivities of middle-aged men, but in its jolly, almost seaside postcard approach, the movie loses edge and bite.

    Jones and co basically bolster up the one-dimensional image of Walters’s character as a cheery old duck whose early life was hard, but rich in experience, while its truly sad aspects are blithely glossed over.

    Christine Painter
    Julie Walters
    Wing Commander Morton
    Alec McCowen
    Shirley
    Shirley Stelfox
    Dolly
    Danny Schiller
    Rose
    Victoria Hardcastle
    Timms
    Tim Woodward
    Sydney
    Dave Atkins

    Director
    Terry Jones

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