Tricks of the Trade

Year: 1988

Runtime: 100 mins

Language: English

Director: Jack Bender

MysteryComedyDrama

After her picture‑perfect husband is murdered in a prostitute’s apartment, devastated Beverly Hills homemaker Catherine quickly resolves to bring his killer to justice. She forms an unlikely partnership with Marla, the Hollywood hooker who serviced the victim, and together they plunge into Los Angeles’s seedier underworld, using the caper’s twists to track down the murderer and close the case.

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