1986 erotic thriller starring Sigourney Weaver as Dr Lauren Slaughter, an academic who decides to supplement her underpaid job at Anglo-Arab thinktank by moonlighting as an escort.
Provides examples of:
- Big Fancy House: One of Lauren's clients takes her to a weekend party at a friend's country estate.
- Secret Sex Worker: Lauren Slaughter, Ph.D. works at a Middle East policy institute in London, barely scraping by because it doesn't pay well. She secretly starts moonlighting as a High-Class Call Girl at the Jasmine Agency and gets caught up in life-threatening political plots and intrigue as her clientele ends up being wealthy diplomats, policymakers, and foreign dignitaries.
- Self-Made Man: Lord Bulbeck started out as a docker and climbed his way up through the establishment.
- Standard Female Grab Area: How Lord Bulbeck manhandles Lauren out of a meeting at the Institute.
- Student Debt Plot: Lauren is more of a graduate in an ill-paid job, but academic impoverishment and financial instability offer the rationale for her precarious situation as a sex worker who is dragged in too deep.
