Love Ranch is a 2010 drama film by Taylor Hackford and starring Helen Mirren and Joe Pesci. The film is based on the lives of Joe and Sally Conforte, a married couple who opened the first legal brothel in the United States, the Mustang Ranch in Storey County, Nevada. Violence results when their marriage is tested by infidelity. Filming began in January 2008. The film was released in limited U.S. theaters on June 30, 2010.