Confessions of a Go-Go Girl

Confessions of a Go-Go Girl is a 2008 Lifetime made-for-television film starring Chelsea Hobbs, directed by Grant Harvey, based on a play by Jill Morley and written an co-executive produced by Lenore Kletter.

The film aired on Lifetime on August 16, 2008.^[1]

Plot

Jane McCoy (Hobbs), a recent college graduate, decides to scrap her plans for law school to pursue an acting career full-time, against her parents' wishes. Struggling to make both ends meet, she meets a confident and persuasive friend (Carter) at her part-time sales job in a clothes store, who shows her the way to make extra money Go-go dancing. What starts as just an "easy money" job, however, rapidly becomes an all-consuming activity.

Cast

• Chelsea Hobbs - Jane McCoy
• Sarah Carter - Angela Lucas
• Corbin Bernsen - Nick Harvey
• Rachel Hunter - Donna Mercer
• Travis Milne - Eric Baldwin
• Tygh Runyan - Kurt Powell
• Karen Kruper - Grace McCoy
• James D. Hopkin - Jim McCoy
• Graeme Black - Jamie 'Junior' Mccoy
• Judith Bucha - Anne Branson
• James Kot - Roy
• Stafford Lawrence - Ziggy
• Khari Jones - Yuppie Manager
• Shae Keebler - Elizabeth
• Terry David Mulligan - Dr. Double D
• Jennifer Rae Westley - Lily (as Jennifer Westley)
• Scott McAdam - Groom
• Rod Heatheringston - Best Man
• Shannon Micol - Young Woman

Style

The Daily News's Michael Korb wrote, "Confessions is a little more risque than traditional Lifetime fare -- considering that Hobbs and friends are dancing around in their underwear for a significant portion of the film".^[2] Brad Newsome agreed, stating in The Sydney Morning Herald, "This is a little racier than the usual Hallmark fare."^[3] Robert Philpot said the film "continues [Lifetime's] August series of lurid-topic movies".^[4]

Reception

Steve Pratt criticized the film in The Northern Echo, writing, "No full frontals in Confessions Of A Go-Go Girl [...] a 2008 TV movie of numbing boredom – even in fast forward mode."^[5]