BOTTLE GIRL /NIGHTCLUB SECRETS

2018, 90 minutes, Colour.
Kate Mansi, Rachel Hendrix, Gary Weeks, Nick Marshall.
Directed by Joe Menendez.

This is a conventional thriller made for the television audience. The original title, Bottle Girl, refers to women recruited to special services in a high flying but seedy nightclub. To that extent, Nightclub Secrets is a more accurate title.

The film opens mysteriously with a young woman writing a note and setting the club alight. Her sister, a teacher of creative writing, partial for crime stories, begins to investigate her sister’s suicide, having returned home after some alienation from her alcoholic mother.

She decides to go to the bar where her sister worked, receives good reports about her, makes some sympathetic connections. There is also a suspicious character, a wealthy man, who may have murdered her sister. He meets her and is sympathetic towards her. However, he has an agent in the club, who recruits girls and sets them up, especially for parties at a mansion he owns.

As might be expected, there are dangers with the sister taking on such a job and an investigation. She does meet a sympathetic private detective who helps her – and then it is revealed that her sister’s suicide was contrived and that she is still alive, working with the private detective to unmask the wealthy man and his agent. They are running an exploitative sex slavery project with the girls.

Needless to say, there is a file and confrontation, happy reconciliation with the two sisters, a number of dangers but the police arriving, having been urged on by the girls’ mother.

This is one of those television movies to while away some spare time.