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10 Movie Hookers Worth Renting

Hollywood sure loves them some prostitutes. Playing one used to be taboo, until Julia Roberts put trick-turning sidewalk huggers on the mainstream map in Pretty Woman, the most popular movie about hoes ever. Since then, the “hooker with a heart of gold” has become one of the industry’s most beloved characters.

But now they’ve gone too far. Today the news broke that Fergie will be playing a prostitute in the upcoming musical adaptation Nine, and we’re a little worried that her sour Fergalicious juice is going to tarnish Hollywood’s flawless streak of high-priced hoes. After the jump, check out our 10 favorite big screen hookers.

1. Meagan Good In Waist Deep

The recent Hot Complex was the Bonnie to Tyrese’s Clyde in the bank robbery action flick. As her character “CoCo,” she sold dresses, and a little snatch on the side, to get by (and keep Big Meat off her cute little tail).

2. Kim Basinger In L.A. Confidential

Before she became Eminem’s mom, Kimmy earned an Academy-award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of a prostitute who made a career out of her resemblance to 1940s movie star Veronica Lake. If you ask us, she’s even better than the real thing.

3. Rebecca De Mornay In Risky Business

Amidst extensive love scenes with Tom Cruise, he learned the ups and downs of letting a prostitute into your life. Sure, she stole valuables from his parents and got him tangled up with her pimp, but she let him cut on the train! Totally worth it.

4. Elisabeth Shue In Leaving Las Vegas

The blonde bombshell from the first Karate Kid movie had to deal with Nicholas Cage’s annoying suicidal drinking problem. The movie almost depressed us to sleep…and then she got naked.

5. Pam Grier In Foxy Brown

In this seminal blaxploitation flick, the original Fox Boogie Brown infiltrates a hoe house by pretending to be one of the girls. Watching her castrate someone is reason enough to avoid real life prostitution dens.

6. Taryn Manning In Hustle & Flow

Taryn was Terrence Howard’s bottom bitch, helping him raise money to follow his dreams of becoming a rapper. We liked her performance so much that we’ll forgive her for the braids.

7. Jamie Lee Curtis In Trading Places

Before all the hermaphrodite rumors took off, Jamie Lee put ‘em on the glass as the prostitute that screwed (literally and figuratively) Dan Akroyd’s character. She’s still a weiner in our book though (zing!).

8. Jodie Foster In Taxi Driver

New York didn’t get any gritter than this movie, in which Jodie Foster played a 12-year old hooker. She escaped her pimp, and fell in love with Robert DeNiro’s sociopathic killer. Gotta love a happy ending.

9. Patricia Arquette In True Romance

Quentin Tarantino cooked up a banger of a story for this flick, where Christian Slater killed off Arquette’s pimp, sending the two of them off on the run with a briefcase full of cocaine. Better than some honeymoons.

10. Lucy Liu In Payback

LL played a slap-happy dominatrix in her bit-role in the Mel Gibson flick. Maybe Cashmere Mafia wouldn’t have gotten canceled so quickly if they had more black leather in the wardrobe closet.