HOW TO PLEASE A WOMAN
Cert 15
On NOW and Sky Cinema now
There’s a spooky movie phenomenon around where movies with very similar plots are released roughly at the same time.
Notable “twin films” include period magician dramas The Illusionist and The Prestige, and Washington terror attack action flicks White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen.
Now we can add male sex-worker comedies Good Luck Leo Grande and How To Please a Woman to the growing list.
British actress Sally Phillips rocks a convincing Aussie accent to play Gina, who works in finance and is stuck in a loveless, sexless marriage.
Days before losing her job, her pals send her a birthday stripagram (still a thing in Australia, apparently). Gina is mortified, but when topless hunk Tom (Alexander England) offers to do “anything” she wants for the next two hours, she has a flash of inspiration – she gets him to clean her house.
And when Gina is made redundant, she has a ready-made business plan. Tom and his former workmates from a bankrupt removals company will be house-cleaning hookers who cater for neglected women’s every need. There are some cringey moments and some mildly amusing ones too. But Phillips keeps us watching with another likeable performance.