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The Girlfriend Experience
MEANRANK
54/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 35, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 67. Critics average 66, everyone else 50.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Chelsea is an in-demand call girl whose $2,000 an hour price tag allows her to live in New York's lap of luxury. Besides her beauty and sexual skill, Chelsea offers her clients companionship and conversation, or, as she dubs it, "the girlfriend experience." With her successful business and a devoted, live-in boyfriend, Chelsea thinks she has it made... until a new client rocks her world.
Details
- Director
- Steven Soderbergh
- Writers
- Brian Koppelman, David Levien
- Released
- 22 May 2009
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 77 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $1.7M
- Box office
- $1.0M
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