Love Ranch (2010) on Netflix
Near Reno, Grace Bontempo and her husband Charlie run the Love Ranch, the first legal brothel in Nevada. Charlie takes on Argentine boxer Armando Bruza, and Grace becomes the boxer's manager.
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Plot summary
Grace Bontempo runs the Love Ranch, a legal brothel near Reno, Nevada. Her husband Charlie is its public face; he has a felony record and an aptitude for spending and infidelity. Charlie takes on Armando Bruza, an Argentine heavyweight boxer, as a client, hoping to promote a fight with Muhammad Ali. Charlie's felony convictions keep him from holding a manager's license, so Grace becomes Bruza's manager. Bruza moves into a trailer at the ranch to train, while the IRS and church ladies circle the business. A doctor gives Grace a diagnosis of advanced cancer.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Love Ranch (2010)
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The film also alludes to the mysterious circumstances surrounding the real-life assassination of famous Argentinian boxer Ringo Bonavena at the Mustang Ranch, the Nevada brothel the story is drawn from.- Love Ranch is based on Joe and Sally Conforte, a married couple who ran the Mustang Ranch in Storey County, Nevada, the first legal brothel in the United States after prostitution was criminalized earlier in the 20th century.
