Frustrated with her limited achievements and an inability to hold down a stable relationship with eligible suitors, penniless call girl Sandra moves to Lagos after close friend Doris offers to help her find her footing as a 'senior girl'. With the help of Doris and the latter's other friend Thelma, Sandra meets the wealthy Chief Esiri who instantly proposes marriage and offers her a job with his bank, but her new status is threatened when Dennis, a struggling job-seeker several years younger than Sandra, shows an interest in her. Sandra is torn between the two men but eventually chooses Dennis, to the chagrin of the scorned Chief Esiri who vows to ruin Sandra. Doris, who has since fallen out with her old friend following an argument, approves of his decision. Jane, another Lagos 'senior girl' who attended school with Doris and Thelma, is set to marry Desmond, a wealthy businessman who remains devoted to his fiancee despite a warning from her scheming stepmother who reveals details of Jane's past as a promiscuous woman with a secret love child. Desmond is involved in a automobile accident that leaves him disabled, but Jane catches the eye of presidential aspirant Alex who urges her to leave Desmond for him. She soon discovers her new lover's presidential aspirations are a fraud to con her out of her money after she divorces Desmond who is still recovering in hospital. Jane regrets meeting Alex, and plots revenge. In a nod to Pretty Woman, high-class hooker Helen agrees to spend a week with a software entrepreneur after he hires her for the night and is mesmerised by her beauty and background. Before their meeting she had entered prostitution as a means of acquiring materialism, accusing innocent men of refusing to pay for her services, blackmailing regular customer Chief Esiri with scandalous photos, and nearly sleeping with her brother.
Part II
The second part of Glamour Girls focuses mainly on prostitution. Doris traffics young girls into Italy to work in the sex trade.
Reception
Commenting on the film, Jonathan Hayne opines that: “... inventive formal strategies permit surveying of an extensive social space. "Glamour Girls" are professional women living outside of patriarchal control—scandalous figures in the Nigerian social imagination, associated with prostitution and danger.”
Production
The film was produced and written by Kenneth Nnebue, and directed by Chika Onukwufor.
Remake
On 12 December 2019, it was announced that filmmaker Charles Okpaleke had acquired the lifetime copyrights of the 1994 blockbuster for a modern remake under his production company, Play Network Africa.
