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Executive Produced by Meryl Streep, Sell/Buy/Date is a hybrid doc/narrative following Tony winning performer and comedian Sarah Jones. As a mixed-race Black woman in America, Sarah, alongside the multicultural characters she's known for, explores her own personal relationship to one of the most misunderstood issues in our current culture: the sex industry, and the surprisingly diverse range of people whose lives it touches. Through interviews and even celebrity cameos, this film poses the question: how can we as a society have a healthy relationship to sex, power, race and our economy, without exploitation or stigma? The goal is to highlight the human faces and voices at the center of this subject.
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Jude Dry IndieWire 10/17/2022
C-
Sell/Buy/Date plays like a Vice special crossed with an Off-Broadway show. It would be dangerous if it weren’t so ineffective. Go to Full Review Katie Walsh TheWrap 10/13/2022
In a world where discourse is flattened into hyperbolic hot takes, it’s a rare and, frankly, beautiful thing to watch the process of someone seeking answers, asking questions and listening to lived experience before coming to her own conclusions. Go to Full Review Lisa Kennedy New York Times 10/13/2022
If you’re hoping to land squarely on an “aye” or a “nay” about the sex-work industry, Sarah Jones’s documentary-narrative feature, “Sell/Buy/Date,” won’t help. And that’s a good thing. Go to Full Review Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru 10/19/2022
An unfocused, meandering and cringe-inducing amalgam of mockumentary and documentary. Go to Full Review Monique Jones Common Sense Media 10/19/2022
4/5
Sell/Buy/Date tries to do something different with the documentary format, and, for the most part, it works. The film is at its strongest when it allows those who are the most impacted by Jones' one-woman show to speak. Go to Full Review Carla Renata The Curvy Film Critic 05/09/2022
Tony Winner Sarah Jones' Sell/Buy/Date is engaging for its unapologetic manner of storytelling  permeating every nook and cranny of the sex working industry with humor, candor and illuminating facts along the way Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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dave d @RT34924333 05/30/2023 I'm not sure making a hybrid mockumentary and documentary on sex work is a great idea. The doc side was informative and important, but when Sarah Jones tries to be funny it is a giant swing and a miss. The unfortunate part is this is a necessary film, however it is filled with distraction and self-indulgence. Jones makes a film about herself and not the workers she is claiming to represent. For that reason alone, this film is ultimately a failure. Final Score: 5/10 See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Executive Produced by Meryl Streep, Sell/Buy/Date is a hybrid doc/narrative following Tony winning performer and comedian Sarah Jones. As a mixed-race Black woman in America, Sarah, alongside the multicultural characters she's known for, explores her own personal relationship to one of the most misunderstood issues in our current culture: the sex industry, and the surprisingly diverse range of people whose lives it touches. Through interviews and even celebrity cameos, this film poses the question: how can we as a society have a healthy relationship to sex, power, race and our economy, without exploitation or stigma? The goal is to highlight the human faces and voices at the center of this subject.
Director
Sarah Jones
Producer
Sarah Jones, David Goldblum, Julie Parker Benello
Screenwriter
Sarah Jones, David Goldblum
Distributor
Cinedigm
Production Co
Secret Sauce Media , Foment Productions, Conscious Contact Entertainment
Genre
Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 14, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 8, 2022
Runtime
1h 37m
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