Confessions of a Go-Go Girl

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Confessions of a Go-Go Girl is a 2008 Lifetime made-for-television film starring Chelsea Hobbs, directed by Grant Harvey, based on a play by Jill Morley and written an co-executive produced by Lenore Kletter.

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The film aired on Lifetime on August 16, 2008. [1]

Plot

Jane McCoy (Hobbs), a recent college graduate, decides to scrap her plans for law school to pursue an acting career full-time, against her parents' wishes. Struggling to make both ends meet, she meets a confident and persuasive friend (Carter) at her part-time sales job in a clothes store, who shows her the way to make extra money Go-go dancing. What starts as just an "easy money" job, however, rapidly becomes an all-consuming activity.

Cast

Style

The Daily News 's Michael Korb wrote, "Confessions is a little more risque than traditional Lifetime fare -- considering that Hobbs and friends are dancing around in their underwear for a significant portion of the film". [2] Brad Newsome agreed, stating in The Sydney Morning Herald , "This is a little racier than the usual Hallmark fare." [3] Robert Philpot said the film "continues [Lifetime's] August series of lurid-topic movies". [4]

Reception

Steve Pratt criticized the film in The Northern Echo , writing, "No full frontals in Confessions Of A Go-Go Girl [...] a 2008 TV movie of numbing boredom – even in fast forward mode." [5]

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