Happy Endings? a documentary by Tara Hurley explores . . .

. . . the Asian massage parlor industry in Providence, RI, where a 25 year-old loophole has made the exchange of sex for money legal — as long as it happens behind closed doors.

As the documentary follows a recent Korean immigrant, “Heather”, working to operate her spa, the city’s mayor fights to change the law that allows her business a legal existence.

This film will be running for two nights only at the Columbus Theatre starting tonight. We need to find a solution to this disgraceful situation. Tickets $15 at the door, $10 when purchased at Brown Paper Tickets, go to Happy Endings?

Friday and Saturday, 7pm and 9:15pm, Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, 621.9660

The first trailer for documentary filmmakers T. L. Hurley and Nick Marcoux’s Happy Endings? about the infamous and legal spa/massage/prostitution industry in Rhode Island, has been watched over 100,000 times on YouTube in the past two months, and a second trailer has just been released. The doc follows several “characters” involved with the trade; spa owners, workers, clients, even Mayor David Cicilline and Representative Joanne Giannini weigh in on the issue. From the trailers, it seems like a well made film, except for a few comically voice-altered interviews with some of the workers and proprietors. Although the film seems to exist only in the form of these two trailers for now, let’s hope it gets released in a full format sometime soon.

Happy Endings official website, YouTube trailers