Personal Services of Life"). Personal Services Personal Services is a 1987 British comedy film directed by Terry Jones and written by David Leland. It is the story of the rise of a madam of a suburban brothel which caters to older men. The story is inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne, the legendary "House of Cyn" madam. Christine Painter (Julie Walters) is a sexually naive waitress and single-mother who pays for her teenage son's tuition by renting flats to local call girls. She later becomes a call girl herself – joining her friend Shirley (Shirley Stelfox) and their "maid" Dolly
Cynthia Payne an MP, a number of solicitors and company directors and several vicars". A cartoon in the press at the time, according to Sarah Baxter in "The Sunday Times", "showed a vicar in bed with a prostitute, confronted by a policeman. 'I demand to see my solicitor,' said the vicar, 'who is in the next bedroom.'" When the case came to trial in 1980, Payne was sentenced to eighteen months in prison, reduced to a fine and six months on appeal. She served four months in Holloway prison. In 1986, the police raided Payne’s home again, this time during a "special