Vox Tablet

Strippers, Jewish Guilt, and Loneliness Collide in Jill Soloway’s New Feature Film


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Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) is a highly educated stay-at-home mom living in an airy modern home in the affluent L.A. neighborhood of Silver Lake. She volunteers for fundraisers at the JCC. She goes to wine-and-chats with the ladies. She works out and sees her therapist regularly. But she’s bored, she can’t get it up for her husband, and she’s starting to freak out. Enter McKenna (Juno Temple), a stripper who gives her a lap dance and whom Rachel then decides to “save,” by inviting her to move into her home.

This is the premise of Jill Soloway’s debut feature film Afternoon Delight, which is partly a comedy but also an affecting look at what...

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