In the The Client List movie, Jennifer Love Hewitt portrays Samantha Horton, a homecoming queen who married a star football player and has three children. After hubby gets laid off, Samantha takes a job at a local health spa, which she quickly finds out is where women get paid to have relations with men
“I really felt for Sam and her story, her struggle,” says Hewitt. “It starts with her being desperate and wanting to help her family.” The Client List is inspired by the true story of the Healing Touch massage parlor in Odessa, Texas.
On the MyLifetime website, one of the user-generated comments is a note from Francisca, a woman who says she worked at a prostitute at the Healing Touch but luckily had quit months before the arrests. According to her, the reason the prostitutes there were desperate to make $300 to $500 a day was to support a $200 a day cocaine addiction, that cocaine, not foreclosure, is what drove the women there to prostitution.
Unfortunately, Samantha’s life goes from high-paying to down in the dumps as she gets arrested for prostitution and has a major falling out with her husband. But, in truly feel-good form, Samantha makes up with her husband and somehow escapes the harshness of the law. The movie in all, shows how women don’t always choose the profession, instead they sometimes fall into it, thinking that they have no other choice. Couple this with low self-esteem and other things that go into prostitution, and it might even be easy to see how Samantha ended up where she did.
