WHORE ON THE RANGE

Screenplay by Sherry Naing

Starkly compelling script about the wages of sin* through the lens of Lacy Keller, a self-employed writer going through a divorce, raising three girls on a small farm, can’t afford Christmas presents, can’t afford much of anything, fights with her bitter ex-husband over custody, faces foreclosure, hints of a lesbian romance with babysitter Perry, turns tricks in her basement, sells her livestock, converts her barn into a brothel, loses her kids in a custody battle, and recruits other mothers to join her prostitution empire. As a divorced ex-waitress and aspiring hog farmer Lacy discovers she excels at one thing: whoring herself out. Depressing ending has Lacy dreaming of selling her life story to Hollywood, attending the LA premiere, walking the red carpet when she wakes up, back to reality, selling her body to a migrant worker. For Betsy Yarborough, grim tale of an underdog hooker with her bootstraps in the air might not be prestige. Writer-director was at Sundance years ago with a similarly subtle woman’s picture called On The Rag.