prosties

Prosties, con artists, angry aggressors and just bad people fill the current-day commercial screen but they're usually stereotypes and flawed in some individually unexplainable ways.

In Walsh's defense, the dialogue is occasionally quite sprightly, even funny, such as in an early scene where the two prosties carry on about the cost of nose jobs.

So a sexual career would seem best suited to prosties on either side of the aisle.

Major plot themes and/or visual references from "Eyes Without a Face," "Blade Runner," "A Clockwork Orange," "Minority Report" and even "Until the End of the World" massage a story that valiantly retains tension in the face of familiarity by mixing such plot frissons as a missing pair of Russian prosties and an unexpected set of twins into the mix.

The dead girl's diary turns out to reveal far too much about Semyon's criminal activities, about how he procures susceptible teens from the old country with promises of work, only to turn them into prosties and junkies, and about Kirill's misdeeds.

In one instance, Julie sets out with a tape measure to determine whether Rene's clunky motorized wheelchair will make it through the narrow doors of the trailers in which prosties ply their trade along the movie's titular highway.

Now a campaigner for prosties' rights, the gutsy Rosa is first shown advising 15-year-old Angelica in street safety (don't cry in front of clients, or they'll leave without paying, etc.); later, the focus shifts to Rosa's fight against the authorities.

She overhears her boss (Michael Hurst) plotting a drug deal, and enlists the help of various friends and fellow prosties to steal the loot.

At the aptly named Sun God Motel, Crow is celebrating with his crew and a batch of prosties when master vampire Valek Thomas Ian Griffith, very tall, very Gothic) literally breaks up the party along with the chests and spines of most of the revelers.