It's called "The Center of the World", and you can get it cheap  through amazon.com (even cheaper if you get a used copy).  

A newly-minted multimillionaire computer company geek hires a stripper to accompany him for a one week trip. She says yes, but only if no sex.

The thing that really blew me away about this well-acted movie was how the critics responded to it. Not one critic I have read a review from understood what was happening between the two, or even that she has been in a relationship with a woman friend she goes to visit.

Anybody seen this gem?

What about other movies about providers?  With the exception of this one, I've never seen one that was realistic.

I think she was stripper and not a provider when this starts out and she is seeing another woman (Carla Gugino). I think Molly Parker is a terrific actress and as most aging Hollywood starlets, she won't see much of her. Despite the well acted but thin script, the movie doesn't have more to say than money can't buy you love. Who knew?

Thanks madiba54.  I just put it in my Netflix queue.

Another movie came out recently by a big name producer called "The Girlfriend Experience".  It starred Sasha Grey in her first mainstream film.  She plays the role of a provider trying to balance all the craziness in her life.  I don't know how accurate it is, but interesting to watch.  And Sasha is not a half-bad actress.

I remember Alisha Klass referring to her pussy as "The Center of the World". IIRC movie was released before her alleged fling w/Bruce Willis.

I don't know of any movie that has the simple respect for a provider character that this movie does. That is why it is so misunderstood - the critics and most audience members just don't get it. Their reactions go a long way toward showing just how deeply rooted are the views that result in the stigmatizing of providers.

Basically, most people insist that Florence is emotionally stunted, and is beginning to develop romantic feelings toward the client by the end of the movie. In fact, she has no romantic feelings toward him at all. She has had a relationship with another woman (the very hot Carla Gugino), who she goes to check on, since is concerned that the  woman is in a downward spiral. Some intense and complex scenes ensue, with some emotional jealousy flashing between the two women, in which the man is really just a prop to them. The person who Florence cares about is her former (and perhaps future) girlfriend - she is grappling with whether she wants to resume the relationship.

At the end of the movie, Florence decides to have sex with the client who is so desperately emotionally needy. She does it not because any desire at all on her part, but simply because he is so unhappy about how the week has gone and because he paid her ten thousand dollars and her sense of integrity makes her feel that she owes him something for that, even if it is something (sex) that means so little.

Read the reviews by professional critics, or by ordinary people on Amazon.com, and you'll be blown away by how badly they misunderstand the characters right in front them.

Very good movie.

That's one version of what the center is. The other version is that it's the multimillionaire geek client's computer. Each of the two main characters (the stripper/provider and the client) thinks their version is the right one.

In the movie, Klass has a very short scene in which she is  a stripper in the same club that Florence (one of the two main characters) works in, in which she pulls a lollipop out of her pussy.

was just painful to watch.
The dialog was bad, the acting was off, and the story tried to wedge too much into the movie so that it felt really disjointed.

I got the feeling that it was one of those films where the actors ad lib their lines...and aren't very good at it, with all of the uh's and um's and er's. That and places where the dialog contradicted itself (think about the scene where the BF is wanting a raise or share of profits where he works).

There was nothing to make you care about the characters, not even the main character (the most compelling thing about her was maybe the "book" that told her to throw away her relationship to go away with a client...but they mentioned that once, out of nowhere).  The rest of the characters were just there and could have been played by cardboard cutouts... they might have been played by cardboard cutouts considering how stiff the acting was.

It was one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
interesting premise, lousy execution.