Street Girls (1975)

Street Girls (1975). 1h 14m | R

“Future top-notch director Barry Levinson co-wrote this sleazy quickie about a u0026quot;moralisticu0026quot; father (who is homophobic yet enjoys strip clubs) searching for his runaway daughter amid a world of prostitution, heroin abuse, and strip club dancing, in all of which she is involved. On the way, he encounters cross-dressers, violent pimps, and his daughteru0026#39;s fellow hookers.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTons of nudity and seedy characters populate this flick. The acting ranges from decent to hammy; itu0026#39;s hardly surprising that only a couple of the cast members made a single film before or after this one.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ePaul Schrader must have seen this before writing the markedly similar HARDCORE (released in 1978), but his version was a definite improvement.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis one was enjoyable for the gratuitous female nudity, little entertainment otherwise.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMPAA: Rated R for abundant nudity, language, drug use, a sex scene, and a couple scenes of violence.”