The Client List: Notes

I admit that I've been busy lately. However here's my notes on "The Client List" starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. I missed the first 5-10 minutes, but can pretty much figure out what happened.

Movie probably starts out with JLH showing she's an ideal mom, cares about her family, has a lovely husband and kids. However oh no! They're having money problems! The husband loses his job, they can't make their mortgage payments etc.


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Running out of money
Husband sells motorcycle
Son wants to play flag football, but there are fees

JLH finds massage job
First day, she gets shown through 2 way mirror what happens (lady takes down customer's underwear)
She leaves
Has to pick up husband from bar, he's drunk
Out of gas, no money
Calls and will take job

First day
    They give free viagra and condoms
    Takes a shot of alcohol before starting
Has first customer
    Asks customer about his wife
    Gets a call from daughter who won spelling bee during the session
    He almost leaves
    She strips naked and he is convinced to stay
Makes promises that she'll leave once she gets ahead
    JLH throws up on side of the road
Talks with friend at bar
    Shows how much money she earned
    Guys seem to want you to lie to them: hot, big dick

JLH buys presents for her family
    Can we afford this? We can now.
Montage
    Pays off morgage payment
    Buys braces for kid
    Gets fancy necklace from customer "It's beautiful, this is why you're my favorite customer" Really? Me?
    She repeats the same exact thing with another guy
Dinner with friends
    I love having money, I know what I'm doing
    Lying to husband about presents

Late night
    Husband is awake, promised he'd protect her, feels guilty for not being the bread winner
    You want a massage? Nah, you've been doing it every day. Not to anyone like you. Gives massage
Friend's husband comes in for appointment, she kicks him out
Christmas day with tons of gifts   
    "I'm starting to see lines in that pretty little face of yours"
    Gives motorcycle to husband
    Husband gets job as exterminator: "It's gross, but it's a job"
Preacher comes in as customer
    Young religious girl gets sick after seeing preacher
    Go home, say a prayer for me
    Girl tells christian fellowship, what's going on at massage parlor

Late for son's football game, missed son's touchdown
    "I can't quit, the money's too good"
    "I'm so tired of being tired all the time"
Slept through alarm   
JLH is so busy, tons of customers
    "What's she doing? There's only so many places to put things, and so many things to put in them"
    Made cookies for customer, listened to them
Sleepy while driving
    almost got into an accident

Given coke by one of her customers
Woken by daughter to make bake sale thingy
    Uses coke and makes huge castle
Uses more coke at work
With family
    "You look like you lost weight"
    "Mama you gonna get some more coke?"
"I need more, I'll make it worth your while"
Yells at her daughter while at dentist, cries and apologizes
Husband tries to sex her up
    "Not tonight, I just can't"   

Police bust in during session and she's arrested
Police find crack
Husband sees wife in handcuffs on news
Friend bails her out
    "At first you did it to save your family, and then it was for you. You threw away your family for what's on your ears and around your neck"
Husband makes some long winded speech, she cries
She watches her pageant win when she was younger, cuddles and talks with her daughter

Talking with lawyer about sentence
    Mayor took action for good PR since they're up for election
    Felony promotion of prostitution, + possession of cocain = 2 years
    Use client list as bargaining chip
    Most use fake names. "Not with me they didn't."
All 3 girls rat on all of their clients
    "beats the hell out of waitressing"
Spares friend's husband

69 names of prominent people are listed as the "Client List"
Gossip montage about who's on the list
Sends kids to grandma
    "I can't look at you. It's real tough. Just looking at you used to be one of my favorite things to do."
Talks with her mom
    "Sometimes it's real disgusting. Sometimes it's like playing an actress."
    "All these men treating me like I was the best thing in their life."
News crews at her house
"The List" is run in the newspaper and picked up by the new media
Entrepreneurs make t-shirts about the list

Each woman is sentenced to 30 days in county jail, fine of $2000
Montage of JLH being processed in jail, fingerprints, mug shots, jail cell, she cries
Empty house, she's all alone
Bunch of women come to her house
    "We were broke. It's amazing what you'd do if you could make it all go away. My whole life I just depended on my looks."
    "Why do they come to you? What do you do that we don't?"
    JLH gets a banana and prepares to show the girls what she can do.
    "We went through two bunches of bananas"

She has a job as a waitress now, going back to school
    Receives a 5 dollar tip
"You screwed up, but you cleaned up your mess and moved on."
Meets up with husband at child's birthday party
     She mentions that she's going back to school
    "You look good. Real good." "I'm glad you're looking at me again."
    Reconciles with husband

The End