The Escort is a rare film in my recent viewing history because it left me with mixed impressions yet I still loved it, its flaws regardless. The main reason why I loved it is because it's a truly feel-good movie. Despite its controversial subjects of prostitution and sex addiction, it manages to stay lighthearted and entertaining, primarily thanks to its two eye candy leads, Lyndsy Fonseca and Michael Doneger. The main flaws for me were a misleading title and lack of depth in dealing with its titular subject. The title is misleading because the film's focus isn't solely the escort business and trials and tribulations of a call-girl. There are two main characters, a high-class escort girl with a heart of gold and her romantic interest, an underachieving journalist with sex addiction which keeps him stuck in his life. And more screen time is allocated to the male protagonist, his friends, family and even landlord, than to the escort girl herself. It wasn't a big problem for me, but viewers who will expect a closer look at the escort trade might be disappointed. What else there is to add? Secondary characters are well-developed and have interesting quirky personalities. One more thing that I really appreciated about this film is its effort to make a commentary on realities of current life, such as cyberbullying, intricacies of modern-day parenting, and heck, even obsession with the TV shows. To sum up, its a little film with charming characters; it doesn't offer much depth or edge, but on the upside, it's engaging, romantic and feel-good.

Mitch Cooper (Michael Doneger) chases anonymous sex online in L.A. He's at a hotel bar waiting for another date when Natalie (Lyndsy Fonseca) shows up. She's actually a high price escort working the bar. The mix up does not go well. Mitch gets fired as a reporter. He struggles to find another job and decides to write about the escort world. He goes back to the bar to find Natalie as his subject.This is a lower budget indie. The guy is lackluster. Fonseca is really the only reason that I started watching this. This tries to be a little humorous with limited success. She has a bit of sass. There are references to Pretty Woman but this is not even in the ballpark. The couple has no chemistry. It's not particularly sexy or fun or dark or poignant or anything. Fonseca gets it part of the way but it doesn't really get there.

The Escort is in the news these days, college girls paying their tuition by prostitution. Yet this rather cute rom/com is about a Stanford grad who winds up doing just that, too. But, this flick shouldn't be compared to Pretty Woman...although more lightweight, it still entertains and keeps your attention.The plot is predictable, a journalist trying to do a story on call girls meets one and is allowed to shadow her providing he acts as her quasi pimp...He eventually falls for her and she for him...in this way it's a bit like the classic Irma Le Douce.I'm always amazed how decent films like this one never really make it on the big screens.

The above synopsis (that written on this Amazon page, next to the film title) is all wrong. So I will attempt to write my own.The Escort is a sincerely honest film following the life of a young, female escort (Natalie) who feels 'forced' into the profession because of a past experience. When she catches the attention of a young unemployed 'journalist' (Mich), who is also a sex addict, she finds herself questioning her lifestyle. I'm kidding, they actually happen to have a lot of common ground- who'd have thought? So there is no judgement of one another, and they devise an agreement to help one another: Natalie agrees to be the subject of a controversial journalism project, that may just win Mich the career of his dreams. And, Mich agrees to serve as Natalie's protection and security (against reckless, violent clients), per Natalie's request. They hit it off, as friends, getting to know one another. But then, they become more....but are either of them ready for that? Natalie pursues a sex-filled life because it's all she can do. For Mich, it's all he wants to do.This film is very mature, but surprisingly there is no nudity. And the acting and casting choices were commendable. It really worked. I would say there definitely was comedy in this, but it wasn't very strong. The only comedy I appreciated was how Mich's family and friends reacted to the revelation of him being a sex addict. What I didn't appreciate was having a twelve-year-old curse and utter such profanities -this is not comedy. Having to resort to this, to get a laugh from the audience is cheap and crass. I would say this film is more of the drama genre. The only other thing I didn't like was how Mich had no respect for women, he used them for sex and then, dismissed them easily. This was expected of course, (for a sex addict), but I didn't like it.It was strangely refreshing to find that this was not a film where love forcefully changes you. Instead they made the choice to change their lifestyles for love, there was no obligation to do so: it was based on opportunity. This means that Mich was not her 'saviour', she was an independent but lonely woman. She didn't need him, she wanted him. If that's not love, I don't know what is.Likewise, it was also refreshing to find that Natalie was not brought into the 'escort' business because of a poor upbringing, 'that it was all she ever knew'. It wasn't that at all, she was actually Stanford -educated. Such controversy.