"Landing Up" was a watchable slice of life depicting two extremely intelligent women down and out in New York City. Katie Jo and Cece dream of having an apartment in Manhattan. But neither seems practical enough to recognize that they first need to get a job.

The film was a stretch in portraying characters who believed that their ticket to success was in finding the right man. It was almost as if this film was conceived for some era other than the twenty-first century. For Cece, it is a junkie named James with whom she has the occasional opportunity to shack up. In the case of Katie Jo, her personal address book contains a massive list of her hook-ups and the aliases she has used. Her discovery of David with whom she has some chemistry has some promise. Their "relationship" reaches the two-week mark in the course of the film.

The two women assume that if Katie Jo informs David that she is homeless, then he will dump her. The result is a cascade of lies. Yet another disturbing moment is when Katie Jo murders James, injecting him with an overdose, so that she and Cece can occupy his apartment.

This was not a depiction of the possibilities of realizing the American Dream. It was a sad story of the disenfranchised dreaming of landing up, but always facing the possibility of descending into a darker region of the lower depths. One always roots for an underdog. But these characters never gave a sign of working up, let along landing up, to their potential.

Should have been called how to be an acceptable prostitute. All it is is a rom com BS twist on how to be a prostitute and call it romance. Just another take on pretty woman, a stupid woman's dream and harks back to still believing chivalry should exist when equality should and all women are princess which clearly they are not. The BS and unreasonable expectations makers of these kinds of movies try to make people think this is what we should believe is condemnable and is a comment non how society is heading. Why do people (let alone myself in this case) even watch this kind of crap movie

There is lots of sex in this moving, but not the kind that is a turn-on to watch. Mostly it is the lead being treated badly. Even the guy who is interested in her legitimately seems mostly in it for the sex. She did give him one turn of phrase that helped him win an ad campaign, but other that that, a lot of the conversation between them is strained. She tries to keep it secret that she is homeless, but in the tragic end, the truth comes out.

That said, I really appreciate this film. It was well acted, and seemed true to the portrayal of a real character.