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I considered skipping HOLLY as I was thinking there was no way a movie about child prostitution in Cambodia could be upbeat. I was not wrong. Holly is sold by her parents at age 12 and smuggled from Vietnam to work in a brothel. She commands a high price as she is still a virgin. An American dealer of stolen artifacts ends up at the brothel when his motorcycle breaks down. Of course he is offered the girls and even Holly. He is touched by her plight and learns her story. She want's very much to work so her little sister will not be sold and because he is kind to her, she wants him to be her first "yum yum". Child prostitution is against his morals and he is never swayed. He becomes obsessed with saving her even though he is warned that Holly belongs to the "mafia" and that his life is worth less then $5 dollars on the street. A tough story to think about and hard for me to rate. I wonder how "real" it is. I'm not going to think anymore about and I will not rate it. I'm just going to get LOST! I will say though that Guy Livingston is great as the American and Thuy Nguyen is very pretty.
Heh, when the going gets rough.....RUN!!!
I broke down and got Season 2 of LOST. Now to find some time for the marathon.
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