The story of London 'madam' Cynthia Payne. Or, according to the credits of the film, entirely fictitious and nothing to do with her, even though she was technical consultant and the central character is called Christine Paynter. Ah, what a tangled legal web we weave when things are still sub judice. Alternately bright and grim and occasionally amusing in its desperate way, the result is about what you'd expect: lots of earthy language and 'late-night' wit, with a salty if rather variable performance by Julie Walters which, like the story, gets wearing after a while. Generally, the film falls between vulgar low-life humour and St Trinian's titillation but, if you like that sort of thing, it's all good clean dirty fun, both the film and its characters being in the good old British tradition.

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