Time Out says
What’s weird here is not so much the notion of downhome porn – it’s the new market staple, after all – as the eerie amiability with which these folks go about it: from Andy’s ex to senior citizens to the laughably biddable staff of the local bed store, the town swings behind the project with uniform affability and mutual consideration. Nothing can shock and no one is even faintly taken advantage of; the crew even turn their back on the action to spare the cast’s modesty. Director Michael Traeger is comparably careful not to show anything to startle the horses; yet if there’s something hypocritically coy about a sex comedy without sex (let alone a porn industry without victims), there’s also something refreshing about the characters’ unabashed good nature – at least until the grievously saccharine finale. Cute dialogue and a savvy cast (Bridges reprises his Jeff Lebowski) make for an enjoyable enough stroll but, really, who wants Stepford with double penetration?
Release Details
- Rated:15
- Release date:Friday 28 April 2006
- Duration:96 mins
Cast and crew
- Director:Michael Traeger
- Screenwriter:Michael Traeger
- Cast:
- Jeff Bridges
- Tim Blake Nelson
- William Fichtner
- Ted Danson
- Jeanne Tripplehorn
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