Painted Angels (1999)

This off-puttingly dreary Anglo-Canadian co-production interweaves the stories of a group of prostitutes working in a bordello in a remote Midwestern town circa 1870. Among the working girls employed by madam Annie (Brenda Fricker) are: Nettie (Kelly McGillis), who also performs abortions to help support her own child; Ada (Anna Mottram), who's too old for the customers; the beautiful and ambitious Georgie (Lisa Jakub); newcomer Katya (Meret Becker), a former dancer who claims she can speak to the dead; and Eileen (Bronagh Gallagher),an Irish woman who's lost all her family.

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