The Client List (2010 TV Movie) User Reviews (35)

Really not bad for what it is

[b_biden-24838 · 7/10 · 8 February 2018]

I went into this just looking to kill a couple of hours, but really it isn't bad for what it is. Yes, some of the Texas traits are stretched ("hotter than a fur coat in Marfa"), but not as much as most Texas movies and some of the people and scenery actually felt familiar. (I'm from Texas.)

I found the main character to be believable. She was not portrayed as a victim or as a demon, but as someone who made a bad decision in difficult times and then continued that bad decision due to her own flaws. Watching her when she feels guilt seems very real to me. Her mother was also a fully developed character and her friends and some of the other characters had some moving scenes. I thought it was well acted and well paced. Two of the last scenes were hard to believe and were quick reminders that this was a TV movie.

Better movie about prostitution than you might think

[mrcibubur · 7/10 · 12 August 2010]

I must say that I found this movie highly amusing and entertaining. Americans are bound to criticise it but the concept of the story strikes at the heart of family life and when the chips are down and you are broke, a woman will do anything to feed her children and keep the family home. That is what Samantha does in the story line and full credit to her. the film is good in my opinion because it treats the subject in a light hearted way (a bit like Stepford Wives if you can imagine) and is an eye opener for us all, there is no bad language and actually no sex either, given the nature of the film. It is not a compelling film and of course it is a wee bit predictable but it should be seen and enjoyed.

Decent, fairly short film

[AscendeSuperius · 7/10 · 16 June 2022]

It's strong point is also its weak point. For an hour and a half film, it checks all the right boxes, a half decent plot, a somewhat decent ending, nothing really sticks out like a sore thumb. However, with the little time it has, some parts of the film felt too rushed, without enough time to really soak in the emotions of the characters, what they might have been going through and all.

Rather Insulting In Its Dumbness

[Michael_Elliott · 19 July 2010]

Client List, The (2010)

* 1/2 (out of 4)

Incredibly silly drama from Lifetime about a Texas mother of three (Jennifer Love Hewitt) who finds herself about to lose her house after she's laid off and her husband is injured on the job and can't find work. She goes to work in a massage parlor but soon learns that the best way to get tips is through prostitution. When it comes to any made-for-TV flick you just know there are going to be certain amounts of melodrama but this film here must think its viewers are some of the dumbest people in the world. There are so many problems with this film's screenplay but the final twenty-minutes are rather insulting. Again, some might say I'm a man and this movie wasn't meant for me but I honestly don't see who could watch this ending and feel good about anything they've seen. I'm not going to ruin anything but this film is so full of sugar that the entire thing seems like a bad school play without a single thing going for it. I think one of the biggest problems with Hewitt who just isn't believable in the role. Not only does her Texas accent go in and out throughout the film but there wasn't a single second where I believed she was a mother of three. She didn't look like someone from a small Texas town and the screenplay doesn't do her any favors by having her shout she's too pretty to be poor. With dialogue like that it's impossible to feel sorry for her or her situation and it doesn't get any better when the screenplay tries to make her out to be some sort of victim in a world of bad men. Hewitt does come off well in the more sexual side of the role but the drama falls flat on its face and really kills anything the film is going for. Cybill Shepherd plays her mother and pretty much just sits around throwing out bad one-liners. I'm not sure if it was because this was made for the Lifetime Network but it seems that even in the most dramatic moments there's enough time to throw out penis jokes. I'm really not sure what could have saved this movie but a little bit of honesty probably would have gone a long way. The husband's reaction, the poor ending and how they try to turn the event into some new sensation just never works and in the end there's really not much this film has going for it. I'm also not quite sure what the filmmakers were trying to say in the reasons the character did what she did as there are thousands of people in the same situations and they're not inviting in hundreds of men.

Scratch it off your list

[hall895 · 4/10 · 18 May 2012]

A Lifetime movie about prostitution? How is that supposed to work exactly? Because on Lifetime you can't actually show anything. You can barely even hint at anything. But maybe that's OK because if you saw the main character getting down and dirty with an endless succession of men it might be hard to sympathize with her. And this movie clearly wants you to sympathize with her. The poor, sweet, lovable Texas mom who just has to sleep with hundreds of men. You know, for her family. She's doing it for her family so that makes it OK, right? Ick.

Jennifer Love Hewitt plays Sam. Both she and her husband are out of work. They are about to lose their home to foreclosure. And goshdarnit their son needs money to register for peewee football. What's a mom to do? Well, become a hooker of course. To be fair Sam doesn't set out to be a hooker. She thinks she's applying for a job as a massage therapist but it turns out this is a full-service massage parlor if you catch my drift. After approximately two minutes of moral indignation in which Sam refuses the job she frantically calls up the head hooker to beg forgiveness for any perceived slights against these hard-working women. Sam would just love the opportunity to be a prostitute after all. And so begins Sam's career as the most popular living, breathing blow-up doll in Texas. And everyone lived happily ever after. No, not really.

This is a movie which both insults your intelligence and bores you to death. Not a good combination. Nobody seems to question how it is that after a few weeks of working as a massage therapist Sam has enough money to not only pay off the bank but lavish all sorts of extravagant goodies on her family. Like a motorcycle for her husband. What a dunce this guy is. Doesn't question all the cash. Doesn't realize that his wife shouldn't be nearly as tired and strung-out as she is if she's just giving rubdowns all day. Doesn't question all the fancy new jewelry his wife's receiving as gifts from her clients. Sam explains the baubles away by saying they're fake. Yes, because massage therapy clients are well-known for brandishing jewelry, real or fake, on girls who rub their backs. That makes sense. The one friend Sam confides in does not do the logical thing which would be to smack Sam upside the head. Eventually the story takes a darker turn. Sam starts to lose control, then comes the inevitable dramatic final act plot twist which actually isn't at all dramatic. And then the filmmakers try to put a happy face on all of this because, again, they obviously want you to think good things about Sam. Don't you just love this brave, plucky little heroine? Not particularly. Hewitt turns in a decent performance, doing the best she can with a rather lousy script. None of the other performers, including Cybill Shepherd mailing it in playing Sam's mom, make any kind of positive impression at all. If this wasn't a Lifetime movie maybe it could have been spiced up a little bit. But it is what it is, a rather tame prostitution story. Who wants a tame prostitution story? Apparently Lifetime thinks we all do as they went and turned this rather lousy movie into a TV series. Endless hours of this drivel? No thanks, an hour and a half was plenty.

Redemption is so easy

[sohotech-82-836709 · 6/10 · 16 June 2011]

Hewitt's character Sam makes passing nods to her "Christian Beliefs" whilst justifying her behavior as the only think she can do to help her family. Apparently in today's America helping your family means buying them stuff. Sam's love for her children barely extends beyond buying stuff for them which is probably where America is going wrong in the first place. Hewitt's performance center's around her unusual skills at satisfying her clients which apparently is the only thing her client's wives want to know in a later scene. Her husbands behavior is just as bizarre when he discovers what it is his wife is actually doing at her "Day Job". When did men start crying instead of doing what is more natural? The characters around Sam are just not that believable and even less so when Sam's mother says "it is partly my fault". When did a mother ever say that? The final punishment for Sam;s behavior and her redemption are both as ridiculous as the almost Disneyesque "Only for Mature viewers" plot line. if this is the 80's someone should pinch me so I can wake up. This has to have been written by someone who does not have a sex life.

This movie will never be on my list of great TV movies, anytime soon.

[ironhorse_iv · 4/10 · 2 May 2013]

Sometimes, Lifetime Channel makes really good movies. This isn't one of them. The Client List is both disgusting and stupid. It's sad to think that they made a 2012 TV Series out of this trash. There is nothing sexy about Jennifer Love Hewitt sleeping with old men, cheaters, and having sex with ugly men risking STDS for money. How you feel about prostitution, and whether it is a victimless crime, may determine if you like or dislike this film. I don't like this movie because it made itself to be a sexy fun drama, and instead a message movie that shows the dark side of prostitution and the dangers. I was really hoping for a Night of Cabiria (1957) or Vivre Sa Vie (1962) feel to the film. Wow, was I deeply wrong. Jennifer Love Hewitt starts as Samantha Horton, a wife and mother turned prostitute when she lands a job at call house/a massage parlor due to serious financial hardships. The town has no clue that hiding behind the doors of what appears to be a legitimate business, the girls do more than just give a massage.Her clueless husband is played by Teddy Sears as a pretty wimpy guy who was once a football star. He's had a knee injury but we aren't sure why he can't hold down another job. It's never explain. I found him only there to shame Samantha for turning into a hooker. He plays little to no part of the story, besides that reason. The Client List might be based on a true story of the 2004, the West Texas sex scandal that rocked the city of Odessa, Texas when a police investigation of the Healing Touch massage parlor uncovered allegations of prostitution and city corruption, but the movie takes such liberties to the story. Unlike the movie, where most of the the sex acts happens in its close door in the massage parlor. In real life, the clients would ask them for a girl to meet at a certain time and then she goes to their choice of a hotel and then they'll meet there, and have their session. Surrprising the lead actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, was actually nominated for a Golden Globe for this film. I usually love Jennifer Love Hewett's work, but I hate this concept, and I'm embarrassed for her that she would lower herself to this standard. I have to say her acting is most campy. Her southern accent sounds awful and makes her look dumb. Sam wrestles with this decision periodically, as she also get hook on drugs. She didn't want to become a prostitute. She was against it from the very start and turned down the job, but she ends up doing it due to greed. Rather than quiting, she rides it until it can't go any further. The movie loves to say, the men who buy their time with the hookers were bad and make the women look like victims. I have to say, both the men and the women are to blame for their awful decision making. There are no organized crime men running the operation. It's all women! The only male who is dangerous to the women, at least as depicted in the film is the one John who gives and sells Samantha Horton drugs. There is no violence and even the language is mild. There are not victims, at all, movie. They deserve everything they got store for them in the end. This movie is also one of the most misogynistic film, I ever saw. I'm not saying that prostitution is immoral, but to glamorize it is wrong because prostitution is actually very degrading and dangerous for the women who do it. This was made for the female-targeted Lifetime Network, and her performance will probably set women back 20 years. Samantha's mama, Cassie, is played by Cybill Shepherd in a very canny and welcome supporting role. The acting wasn't anything worth noting. The screenplay is very predictable, and there wasn't much nudity for a eroticism film. The prurient "ripped from the headline" scandal wallow in distasteful dramatic recreations and just bellow up. Overall, not worth it unless you're a fan of B-List, Lifetime movies.

I just could not connect

[jetkot · 7/10 · 24 April 2019]

The movie is made for titillating men. The movie claims to be about social commentary and the oldest profession in the world. This film goes overboard. The first half is wasted in showing how she gets into it and the second half is wasted in showing how she gets away with it. There is not much sex in it either if you are planning to watch it for that.

Boring Lifetime movie

[SnoopyStyle · 4/10 · 8 March 2014]

Samantha Horton (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Rex (Teddy Sears) are struggling facing foreclosure. Former beauty queen Samantha uses everything in her arsenal to keep afloat. Rex is a former star running back who can't even keep his construction job with his bum knee. Then she gets a job at a massage parlor in the next town, but she soon finds out that she could earn more if she does more.

It's a Lifetime movie of the week. It's not that I have any moral objection to the characters or the story. I just find it very boring. I guess some may find the subject matter titillating or controversial. It's not much of either. It just seems that the struggle for Samantha is mostly one of image. Maybe a short scene in the beginning showing the couple at the top of the world would be very helpful.

She Is Still Doing It...

[martinoki1371 · 7/10 · 23 April 2011]

So what it is a Lifetime movie who really cares, the plot isn't too terrible and she wears some delicious looking outfits in the movie... as any lifetime movie goes if your a guy that has ever seen Mystery Science Theater 3000 you know how to handle these chick flicks, talk a little crap and enjoy the parts where they show some skin. but honestly it is about a woman that is about to loose what little she has and she takes up a job. where that job takes her is on a journey that she did not wish for and she tries to right some wrongs... Jennifer gets caught up and the movie is a little predictable. besides that if it was a little more reveling i would give it a 10 out of 10.

Fairly dull

[jfgibson73 · 4/10 · 26 April 2020]

Samantha takes a job at a massage parlor to earn money while her husband is out of work. She starts doing things that aren't legal, but earn her more money. Then, the place gets busted and the town finds out, including her husband. Then she has to deal with the legal ramifications and rebuild her life. This movie was fine. It's a t.v. movie for sure, with the most watered down script possible for the subject matter. Nothing about it is special.

Much better than the ratings.

[holahola84 · 8/10 · 30 April 2012]

Well well well.. Looks like there's clear bias shown in many reviews particularly those that gives poor rating. I watch this movie with little expectation, just want to see JLH shows some skin. Yes I am shallow but which boy at his 20s isn't? But boy I was wrong, the plot is something you can relate and emotional throughout. Kinda like the show Knocked Up where you are just looking for a simple laugh and pretty faces but end up getting whole lot more. Yes the girls are not morally perfect but so are humans. And the acting are much better than I thought (except the husband, just enough to make the role I guess). And of course, as expected JLH looks really really hot in those outfits. Haha! Well, and for those in the profession I don't think this show will affect public perspective nor have it lose any respect. So don't worry too much. Enjoy the show!

A Waste of Time

[cinemaniac2002 · 1/10 · 20 July 2010]

When I heard Jennifer Love Hewitt discussing this film, I was intrigued. But this film was so boring, I fell asleep. The struggles of her family due to the mortgage crisis and being misled by the bank is an issue that should have been explored more. Her time would have been better spent becoming an advocate for other unwitting Americans to avoid that kind of demise in the future. Even though that storyline may not have gone along with the purpose of the story, it was one of the main reasons why she went into prostitution, so it would have been a valid plot line to expand upon.

Her husband becomes injured, so can't work in his normal role. He's looking for other work and eventually finds it, but in the meantime, they have themselves and two children to support.

I came from a working class poor larger family myself, and while it was challenging, I can't imagine my mother resorting to prostitution. So maybe I watched this movie with a bit of bias.

I wanted to like this movie, because I feel there is such a lack of good story lines for women in entertainment. This one was no different. It pandered to the male fantasy of women as sex servants. There she is, performing sex acts of all kinds with mostly strange, ugly, fat guys, then her husband is chastising her for being late to her son's ball game, and even worse, she is exhausted, but expected to service her husband sexually, as well. It was heartbreaking to watch this movie on many levels. It actually made me very grateful that I am not in that position and never will be. It also reminded me that there are worse things than being alone: having to be her in that situation is one of them. And it doesn't matter how loving her husband or kids were.

I was never a fan of "Pretty Woman" for the blatant way that it glamorized prostitution (the original screenplay of which was realistic and gritty) - and this movie is no better. There is nothing glamorous about prostitution. Nearly every woman involved in it eventually leaves it and tells the truth: it's degrading and humiliating. Perhaps not every john is awful, but the stark reality is that many men pay for sex so that they can do things to women that they wouldn't have the guts to suggest to any decent woman, wife or girlfriend. That's why they're paying. And it is a harsh reality that many men who pay for women generally feel they have the right to do whatever turns them on. No matter how degrading or filthy it may happen to be.

I would have hoped that this film would explore some of that and be truthful. But instead, it sugarcoated the world of prostitution, glorifying it rather than exposing it for what it really is. Shame on the writer, Lifetime and Jennifer Love Hewitt. She's proved to be even more delusional than she has been in the past, if she thinks she can hold her head up high after doing this piece of crap.

Some Pretty Faces can act!

[starmates · 30 July 2011]

There are a lot of very pretty faces out there that cannot act at all. It has been a while since I have seen Jennifer in anything. I was really glad to see that she can act a lot better that some of the other bigger box office cuties out there. The acting ability of some of those other hotties is insulting. I found this movie interesting in that Jennifer portrayed a girl who in desperation tried to do something to rescue her and her families situation without realizing the outcomes. Very human situation and she showed real sensitive emotions right from the beginning, wanting to run the other way being turned off by the whole idea and then being consumed buy desperation and greed as is a major story of what is really going on in this country. She played the part very well, so much so that I wanted to take time out and write this review. This is not easy subject matter and lots of people will be reviewing it personally rather than subjectively. The flick is not perfect, but think about how it would have been without Jennifer? She made the movie, and it really grabbed my attention with all the real emotion in the situation between her and her husband and having to try and start over in life. This is a typical real life story with a bit sticky subject matter. But Jennifer did a great acting job with it. For what it was it was well done!

Offensive

[mmphillips85 · 1/10 · 6 April 2012]

I am offended.

For years the AMTA has been trying to clear the name of Massage Therapy, the last thing they need is some celebrity icon to wreck it all. I am currently studying to earn my Associates Degree in Therapeutic and Clinical Massage Therapy. Our standards are set extremely high and any sexual advances of any kind are NOT tolerated. Holistic healing has been around from the beginning of man kind, but slowly and surely modern man has found a way devalue the practice and movies like this don't help the cause.

This is my future and I take it very seriously. I will be sure to spread the word to all my fellow students and practicing Massage Therapist.

This really needs to be taken off the air.

As a woman, it is offensive. Another movie of how women can use their bodies instead of their minds is all this society needs today. How about somebody come up with something a little more creative than this!

It's no Pretty Woman, but it's decent

[zombiefan89 · 5/10 · 2 January 2013]

I'd definitely rate this movie as mediocre all around. I've seen stories like this all the time. So&So starts off doing something morally wrong for money to get out of debt or to buy something they desperately want, then by the time they're out of debt or have everything they wanted and are at a good stopping point, they're addicted to the money until the they hit a wall, like police arriving to arrest them. Stories like this are a dime a dozen, even Pepper Ann had a similar episode to this, involving using her friend as a slave to cut lawns for her, so she can use the money to buy roller-skates. I think even The Weekenders did an episode similar to this, involving selling cheaply made, yet over-priced slushys to people without a food serving license. It's a very old plot, whether this movie was based off a true story or not. As for the acting, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Cybil Shepard do their best, but the script is pretty bad. Also, this movie is TV-14 on Lifetime, so yeah, a lot of innuendo but nothing too bad.

Very Bad Drama

[maxikompel · 1/10 · 5 June 2011]

I have a thinking: There is not worse movie than a bad drama. This movie is really horrible in my opinion and what I say first is : I do not recommend it. The movie is about a family which is having money problems, Samantha Horton (Jeniffer Love Hewitt) and Rex Horton (Teddy Sears)are very worried and scared because they have to sell everything and the money is not enough, so Sam starts to work at a massage place that is really a brothel, so she without telling to his husband continue doing the job and she does very dirt things with the clients (it doesn't shows anything that it cant, so for the teens who want to see some skin they wont, well I really do not recommend it because i think it is very boring i give it a 3/10, I hope this help both of you who read it. greetings, maxi0305

Rather unbelievable in 2010

[vampyrecowboy · 3/10 · 1 January 2011]

OK people, the year is 2010 - and even if this was supposed to be the the 1990's or so, I still found this to be unbelievable on the husband's part and on the part of the lawyer and townsfolk.

In 2010 and even in the 1990's porn and sex on the computer and video was easily received, so for the townsfolk and husband to be ashamed of his wife in 2010 for being a prostitute is rather unbelievable.

Everybody knows that a massage service provides moire than massage if the price is right - especially if the woman can make house payments and buy back a motorcycle.

The lawyer in this movie was horrible. She didn't seem to stand up for her clients - but rather seemed to want to settle just for them going to take a plea bargain, without any trial. For a prostitution charge and s simple case of cocaine possession? Not enough for anything serious and virtually nothing to substantiate any real offence, the lawyer folds? The lawyer caves for a misdemeanour charge and the suspects have to spend three months in jail - how retarded! Fire the lawyer and get Matlock for God's sake.

Then the husband finding out his wife is a hooker and gets upset and leaves her...be happy that she's coming home to you and the family and still cares about you.

This was just a bad show in so many ways - and what's worse is that I really wanted to see this.

Massage parlour = a place to get laid if the $$ is right. Massage attendant = a working girl who has more class and dignity than to stand on a corner and sell her ass.

In 2010, this is a nothing crime and for anybody to be insulted, disrespected and ashamed of it, well wake up and smell the coffee.

If he rally loved his wife, he would have accepted her the night she got busted and given her the biggest kiss in the world for taking care of the family.

It's actually a good movie!

[OhioReviewer · 8/10 · 26 July 2010]

Actually a good movie, especially if you like Jennifer Love Hewitt. It kept me entertained and I didn't find any parts to be boring. Drama, action, excitement, heartbreak, humor, this movie has it all! All actors and actresses play memorable roles. A plausible story, based on a real life incident. Hewitt does a great job playing the lead character, displaying all types of emotion, and of course looking as beautiful as ever! Being a male I was expecting this to be a depressing "chick-flick" tear jerker, especially since it's on Lifetime, but instead I found myself entertained through out the whole movie! Here's hoping Jennifer Love Hewitt continues to put out projects such as this. Highly recommended!

Keep Your Slutty Behavior Away From the Massage Table.

[liccardance-287-596686 · 1/10 · 8 February 2012]

Just what the therapeutic massage industry needs, another smut representation of the profession or lack of profession by your character parading around a massage table in lingerie. Can't Jennifer Love Hewitt find a respectable part to play and show a little love to the massage industry? Massge therapists work hard enough to maintain a respectable reputation in the health care industry. We don't need smut like this on TV.

What is Jennifer Hewitt's fascination with playing these smutty roles anyway? Is it that hard to land a decent role on TV or in the movies? Last time she was an escort with that lifetime movie and now she's a masseuse.

Enough with this crap TV. If you want to do crappy TV do us trained and licensed massage therapists a favor and keep our profession out of it. Shows like this endanger therapists and give people the wrong association.

Jennifer Love Hewitt keeps it cute

[phd_travel · 4 September 2011]

This lifetime movie is a kind of light hearted and watchable true life story about housewife turned prostitute starring the lovely Jennifer Love Hewitt. If it had been someone not quite so sweet it might have been sleazy. Movies about unlikely people turning to prostitution have always been quite fascinating like Mayflower Madam. Liked the foreclosure parallels to today's bad economy. Quite touching when her husband finds out. Keep asking if she looked like that surely there would have been something else for her? I don't know how this is going to be made into a TV series. One movie is enough. Kind of sad Jennifer has to do this though. There must be better roles for her!

Not fair to the clients

[martintyler84 · 2/10 · 11 March 2024]

While the acting of main character is extremely nice and she is doing it very well, after movie starts coming to conclusion, the very men that paid for the services of the massage parlor are victims.

The men become victims in the list of 69 names, men that brought all that money that main actress used to pay for her house, for her kids, for her husbands bike, because she was so stupid to keep drugs in her bag.

All working girls get on the same boat and it just is making heroine out of a characater which was supposed to not take drugs and bring money home. It is taking a turn for the worse as the 69 names get publicly announced and she fixes her relationship with her family as some kind of a saint...

Doing it

[kosmasp · 5/10 · 1 September 2023]

No pun intended - obviously doing it of course. Although to all those who may have gotten too excited ... well slow down! Yes this is about Love Hewitt having to do ... well having to please men, in many different ways, just so she is able to get by. I actually have no idea how the legality of it is ... I reckon there is none. I know there are massage parlors that offer a .. well relief service in Germany too. It seems like they are semi legal here I suppose? Who really knows, but that is not what I am here to talk about.

This is a tv movie - so no real nudity or other stuff that one might consider too steamy. We know what is going on - but it is not shown. I reckon the tv show did the same thing. I didn't even know they had done a movie beforehand. I assume that people loved it (again if you are a fan of hers .. totally get it and not judging), but you got to decide if the "subject" matter is enough to warrant an 80 minutes watch, when you can read about it in a couple of minutes ... yes life can be hard - no innuendo or pun intended ...

Based on a true story, this is actually quite revealing and enjoyable

[angelofvic · 10/10 · 17 July 2020]

This 2010 film is a fictionalized dramatization of a 2004 prostitution scandal in Odessa, Texas. For that reason alone -- the fact that it is based on real events -- it is worthy of being watched.

Rotten Tomatoes rates it quite high: 83%.

Jennifer Love Hewitt gives an excellent, and very believable, performance.

For all of those reasons, I recommend checking this movie out. It's eye-opening.

Ignore the haters.

And no, I'm not a Jennifer Love Hewitt fan or a perv or a heathen. I just like a good true story, well presented, about interesting subjects not explored too often in mainstream media.

Excellent TV movie about the world's oldest profession proving some will do it when desperate times arrive.

[blanbrn · 8/10 · 16 August 2010]

This past summer I must say it was a pleasure to view this Lifetime original movie starring sweetheart and the cute Jennifer Love Hewitt. Over the years many movies have been made about prostitution and escorts this was a watch for the fact that it had Jennifer Love Hewitt in the role of a working girl which was a little uncommon since she takes mostly sweetheart and nice roles.

Anyway this film captures the current times of the recession well as many are struggling with these economic times. It's story was based on actual events it occurs in a small Texas town Jennifer Love Hewitt is Samantha Horton a young woman who's married with small children. And you guessed it tough times have come her husband is laid off and the mortgage payment and making ends meet each month becomes harder and harder. Eventually it's foreclosure time.

Then one day Samantha sees an ad advertising for work as a massage therapist, Samantha arrives at the establishment only to soon learn that these group of girls do a little more than massages. This is a private house of sex call it a massage parlor, in call service or a house of escorts it's pleasure for money. Samantha becomes a top notch girl earning plenty of money to save their house and she pays the bills and spends a lot on material things.

Yet as with pleasure their is a price to pay as soon guilt and shame is felt by Samantha it starts to break down her family life and her body takes a tired toll. Even though some of the finest and most well to do Texas men are clients eventually the playhouse of passion and erotic lust is busted and Samantha's days as a sex worker are over. Really this was a life wakeup call as Samantha had to take a fall from the lifestyle to rediscover family, love, and faith.

Really good TV movie that proves sex sells and that many live secret lifestyles and it shows many will go to desperate measures to make ends meet. Jennifer Love Hewitt is a delight to watch the scenes of her in sexy lingerie especially seeing her in a black bra was an eye candy treat and it was nice to see an appearance from Cybill Shepherd as Love Hewitt's mom. "The Client List" is one TV movie to watch.