Brothel (film)

Infobox Film
name = Brothel


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director = Amy Waddell
producer = Ira Deutchman
Wade W. Danielson
Amy Waddell
writer = Amy Waddell
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starring = Serena Scott Thomas
Brett Cullen
Timothy V. Murphy
Bruce Payne
Grace Zabriskie
Sarah Lassez
Andrea Morris
Lisa Baines
Yvonne Scio

music = Mark Adler
Anthony Marinelli
cinematography = Seo Mutarevic
editing = Daniel Lawrence
distributor = Mount Parnassus Pictures
MovieHouse Entertainment
released = 2008
runtime = 96 min.
country = USA
language = English
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website = http://www.brothelthemovie.com/
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imdb_id = http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319115/

"The Brothel" is a 2008 film written and directed by Amy Waddell. The film stars Serena Scott Thomas, Brett Cullen, Timothy V. Murphy and Bruce Payne and details the story of a woman who flees her life in the city after the tragic loss of her husbandand ends up in an old mining town. As she begins restoring an abandoned turn-of-the-century brothel, her shattered psyche takes on the personae of the four prostitutes and their Madam who once inhabited it. The harder they push her to face her past, the faster she runs toward the land of ghosts.

ynopsis

"The Brothel" is a ghost story about Julianne, a woman who becomes the mistress of death in an attempt to stay close to one she has lost to death. When she realizes she is losing this game, she runs away from her life in the city.

In a small ghost town, Jerome, Arizona, Julianne purchases an abandoned brothel from the turn of the century, and sets to work turning it into a hotel.

In the process of restoring the past, she comes to know the ghosts of the brothel. Each woman represents a part of Julianne's now fragmented life.

Across the street from the brothel is a kaleidoscope shop owned by Avery, a man who knows a great deal about the fragmentation of a life. He takes a keen interest in Julianne and prompts her to face the past she is running from.

As she becomes more and more involved in the world of the ghosts, and a murder that took the life of one of them, she drifts away from theworld of the living. Julianne is forced to choose between disappearing completely into the world of the dead or accepting the loss she hassuffered and returning to her life.

Cast

Serena Scott Thomas as Julianne
Brett Cullen as Avery
Bruce Payne as Thief
Grace Zabriskie as Madam Lady Sadie
Timothy V. Murphy as Gayle/Brian
Sarah Lassez as Sophie
Andrea Morris as Maddy
Lisa Baines as Priscilla
Yvonne Scio as Maddy

Production

Themes

Release

Reception

References

External Links

* [http://www.brothelthemovie.com/index.htm Official Site]
* [http://www.moviehouseent.com/html/brothel.html MovieHouse Entertainment's page for the film]