One thing I've learned that is usually a guarantee is that anything that stars Joe Pesci is almost always a gem. The movie also stars Scout Taylor Compton (Rob Zombies Halloween), Helen Mirren (The Queen), Gina Gershon (Showgirls), and Sergio Peris-Mencheta (Resident Evil: Afterlife) in a movie that was inspired by the Brothels of Reno, Nevada. I was expecting the movie Casino when I was watching this film because I was hoping it was going to explain the rise of legal prostitution in Nevada. Instead, you get all of these different conflicts rolled into one. Mirren's character Grace has cancer and wants to tell Charlie (Pesci) but knows that he's too busy having sex with the girls and is trying to deal with a church group wanting to censor them. Her next problem is that Charlie goes and buys a washed up boxer and makes her his manager. The only problem for her is that Armando (Mencheta) is making advances towards her and she likes it. You'll see in this film that Charlie is a big dreamer and without Grace, he has nothing because she is not just the house mother, his wife, but also his backbone. Compton and Gershon don't have significant roles in this film other than the fact that Gershon is a veteran and Compton is the naive rookie that thinks Charlie loves her. I give the movie a B- only because Mencheta and Mirren were a powerful presence on screen and made the movie worth watching.
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