Glamour Girls

Glamour Girls is a two-part Nollywood film about independent single women embarking on their own paths within Nigeria's traditionally patriarchal society. [1][2] It gained widespread popularity in Nigeria.[3] The film starred Liz Benson, Ngozi Ezeonu, Eucharia Anuobi, Pat Attah, Ernest Obi, Zack Orji, and others.

This article is about the 1994 film. For the professional wrestling tag team, see The Glamour Girls.

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Plot

Part I

Frustrated with her limited achievements and an inability to hold down a stable relationship with eligible suitors, penniless call girl Sandra (Jennifer Okere) moves to Lagos after close friend Doris (Gloria Anozie) offers to help her find her footing as a 'senior girl'. With the help of Doris and the latter's other friend Thelma (Ngozi Ikpelue), Sandra meets the wealthy Chief Esiri (Peter Bunor) who instantly proposes marriage and offers her a job with his bank, but her new status is threatened when Dennis (Pat Attah), a struggling job-seeker several years younger than Sandra, shows an interest in her. Sandra is torn between the two men but eventually chooses Dennis, to the chagrin of the scorned Chief Esiri who vows to ruin Sandra. Doris, who has since fallen out with her old friend following an argument, approves of his decision.

Jane (Liz Benson), another Lagos 'senior girl' who attended school with Doris and Thelma, is set to marry Desmond (Sola Fosudo), a wealthy businessman who remains devoted to his fiancee despite a warning from her scheming stepmother who reveals details of Jane's past as a promiscuous woman with a secret love child. Desmond is involved in a automobile accident that leaves him disabled, but Jane catches the eye of presidential aspirant Alex (Raymond Johnson) who urges her to leave Desmond for him. She soon discovers her new lover's presidential aspirations are a fraud to con her out of her money after she divorces Desmond who is still recovering in hospital. Jane regrets meeting Alex, and plots revenge.

In a nod to Pretty Woman, high-class hooker Helen (Barbara Odoh) agrees to spend a week with a software entrepreneur (JT Tom West) after he hires her for the night and is mesmerised by her beauty and background. Before their meeting she had entered prostitution as a means of acquiring materialism, accused innocent men of refusing to pay for her services, blackmailed regular customer Chief Esiri with scandalous photos, and nearly slept with her brother (Keppy Ekpenyoung-Bassey).

Part II

The second part of Glamour Girls focuses mainly on prostitution. Doris traffics young girls into Italy to work in the sex trade.

Reception

Commenting on the film, Jonathan Hayne[4] opines that: “...[Nnebue’s] inventive formal strategies permit surveying of an extensive social space. "Glamour Girls" (or "senior girls") are professional women living outside of patriarchal control—scandalous figures in the Nigerian social imagination, associated with prostitution and danger.”

Production

The film was produced and written by Kenneth Nnebue,[5] and directed by Chika Onukwufor.

Remake

On 12 December 2019, it was announced that filmmaker Charles Okpaleke[6][7][8][9][10][11][12] had acquired the lifetime copyrights of the 1994 blockbuster for a modern remake[13][14][15] under his production company, Play Network Africa.

References
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  5. Haynes, Jonathan (4 October 2016). Nnebue's Glamour Girls: Scandalous Women. University of Chicago Press. doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226388007.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-226-38800-7.
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  8. Ajao, Kunle (13 December 2019). "Glamour Girls: Charles Okpaleke gets rights for sequel". Sodas 'N' Popcorn Blog. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
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  11. "'Glamour Girls': A remake of this 1994 Nollywood blockbuster is in the works". www.pulse.ng. 12 December 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
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