Body Shots (1999)

Regisseur:

Michael Cristofer

Drehbuchautor (WGA):

David McKenna (written by)

Premierendatum:

21. Januar 2000 (Spain)

Genre:

Drama

Werbezeile:

Tonight it's for sex. Tomorrow it's for real. (Unrated VHS Version)

Plot:

A tale of the mysterious, but necessary, mating ritual between men and women of today and everything they think about sex but are afraid to say.

Plot Keywords:

Male Frontal Nudity | Tied To Bed | Bondage | Erotic | Rape

Nutzerkommentare:

Keep repeating, "At least there's no Melissa Joan Hart..."

Besetzung

Sean Patrick Flanery	...	Rick Hamilton
Jerry O'Connell	...	Michael Penorisi
Amanda Peet	...	Jane Bannister
Tara Reid	...	Sara Olswang
Ron Livingston	...	Trent
Emily Procter	...	Whitney Bryant
Brad Rowe	...	Shawn Denigan
Sybil Temtchine	...	Emma Cooper (as Sybil Temchen)
Joe Basile	...	Bartender
Scott Burkholder	...	Man in Bar
Liz Coke	...	Girl #2
Allison Dunbar	...	Girl #3
Edmund Genest	...	Sara's Dad
Adam Lieberman	...	Burger Joint Cop (as Adam Gordon)
Mark Hicks	...	Bodyguard

Alternativ:

Jello Shots (USA) (working title)
Last Night (USA) (working title)
The Night Before (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexual content including graphic sex-related dialogue, language, violence and scenes of alcohol abuse.

Länge:

106 Min | USA:103 Min (R-rated version) | USA:106 Min (unrated version)

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (DeLuxe)

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Altersfreigabe:

Canada:AA (Ontario) | Portugal:M/16 | Philippines:R-18 | Canada:R (Ontario) (unrated version) | Canada:R (Manitoba) | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) | Netherlands:16 (DVD rating) | Canada:18A (British Columbia) | Italy:VM18 | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Argentina:16 | Australia:R | Chile:18 | France:-16 | Germany:16 | Mexico:C | New Zealand:R18 | Singapore:R(A) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:18 | USA:R | South Korea:18 | Malaysia:(Banned) | Iceland:16

Drehorte:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Firma:

New Line Cinema

Dies und das:

The film's title was changed from "Jello Shots" to "Body Shots" because of threatened litigation on the part of Kraft Foods (owner of the "Jell-O" trademark).

Dialogzitate:

Sara Olswang: I see a guy with a cute bum, I just want to bite it.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweist auf/spielt an auf/erwähnt Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986)

Soundtrack:

Big Calm

Keep repeating, "At least there's no Melissa Joan Hart..."

If you live in Los Angeles, you see them everywhere. Maybe they're combining margarita pitchers and seafood cigars in Manhattan Beach, or tottering toward their SUV, yakking up six lime-tinted martinis in Santa Monica. They're white, they're youngish, they're pretty, and--to borrow a great man's phrase--they're pretty vacant. BODY SHOTS is a dissection of their mating and mismating rituals. The fact that the octet of neo-yupsters collected by the screenwriter David McKenna are all thoroughly repulsive would be no problema if this were a film by Neil LaBute. However, the aspirations here are more toward a "lifestyle" article in Marie Claire embellished to feature length.

To be curt, the shtik here is date rape Rashomon-style; or, to borrow from the Kevin Bacon canon, he-said-she-said. The problem that a) you don't buy one of the participants' story and b) you couldn't care less seems not to have fazed the director, Michael Cristofer, who stages a hotsy-totsy encounter against a chain-link fence just as he did in his leery TV movie GIA. Cristofer, the author of the ghastly seventies play THE SHADOW BOX, seems to be building a career in his late middle age on serving up succulent young flesh, but the focus here is on dialogue meant to stir up conversation on the drive home. ("When you get your mouth down on it--y'know, on a guy?--it's like such a control trip!" Or somesuch.) Props must be given to the stylish photography and the presence of the always funny and undervalued Ron Livingston, a tourist from Planet Human.