Pimps Up, Ho's Down (1998)

Directed by

Fredrik Gertten

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary interviews American pimps about their lifestyle and business. It looks at how pimping operates in the modern United States.

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What happens

Pimps Up, Ho's Down is a 1998 television documentary about pimping in the United States as part of the HBO documentary anthology series America Undercover. The film features interviews with American pimps and explores the modern pimping lifestyle. The film has received some controversy over some pimps using the documentary as an instructional video for their prostitutes, and HBO paying pimps for rights to film their businesses and the Players Ball. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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