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Amy's O (2002)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:8
Rotten:22
Average Rating:4.4/10
Consensus: The title character is too self-absorbed to be all that engaging, and the movie's depiction of gender issues seems retrograde.
Runtime: 87 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Best-selling self-help author Amy Mandell (Julie Davis) is having a crisis. Her book is about why relationships are doomed to fail yet she has never been in a real relationship, nor even had sex in... Best-selling self-help author Amy Mandell (Julie Davis) is having a crisis. Her book is about why relationships are doomed to fail yet she has never been in a real relationship, nor even had sex in several years. Her controlling lesbian publicist (Caroline Aaron), bickering parents, and a pair of smugly married friends (Mitchell Whitfield and Jennifer Bradford), all urge her to find a man. To everyone's surprise she falls for a handsome radio "shock jock" (Nick Chindlund) who interviews her on his breast-obsessed talk show. Their unlikely romance calls her role as a feminist--and his as a sexist pig--into question. The film works best when it's focusing on Amy's intense sexual frustration, which is nicely intensified through a pulse-raising pop-music score and frantic voice overs. Its many ANNIE HALL-style touches (Davis regularly addresses the camera), incessant psychological observations and frenetic camerawork also help keep the film's energy high. It's the second feature from writer-director-producer-star Davis (I LOVE YOU DON'T TOUCH ME) who got her start as an editor of soft-core porn. Vincent Castellanos is a comedic standout in a small role, and Jeff Cesario is good as a sexually frustrated Catholic priest who hears (the Jewish) Amy's steamy confessions. [More]
Starring: Julie Davis, Nick Chinlund, Jeff Cesario, Caroline Aaron
Starring: Julie Davis, Nick Chinlund, Jeff Cesario, Caroline Aaron, Mitchell Whitfield, Jennifer Bransford, Vincent Castellanos
Director: Julie Davis
Director: Julie Davis
Screenwriter: Julie Davis
Producer: Julie Davis, Fred Kramer
Composer: Miriam Cutler
Studio: Catchlight Films
Reviews for Amy's O
Julie Davis is the Kathie Lee Gifford of film directors, sadly proving once again ego doesn't always go hand in hand with talent.
A movie that harps on media-constructed 'issues' like whether compromise is the death of self… this Orgasm [won't be an] exceedingly memorable one for most people.
Amy and Matthew have a bit of a phony relationship, but the film works in spite of it.
[Davis] has a bright, chipper style that keeps things moving, while never quite managing to connect her wish-fulfilling characters to the human race.
One of the most plain, unimaginative romantic comedies I've ever seen.
The whole mess boils down to a transparently hypocritical work that feels as though it's trying to set the women's liberation movement back 20 years.
Davis the performer is plenty fetching enough, but she needs to shake up the mix, and work in something that doesn't feel like a half-baked stand-up routine.
Davis ... is so enamored of her own creation that she can't see how insufferable the character is.
A depressingly retrograde, 'post-feminist' romantic comedy that takes an astonishingly condescending attitude toward women.
About Amy's cuteness, Amy's career success (she's a best-selling writer of self-help books who can't help herself), and Amy's neuroses when it comes to men.
Despite its title, Amy’s Orgasm is not a porno, though it is as tedious as one.
Davis has energy, but she doesn't bother to make her heroine's book sound convincing, the gender-war ideas original, or the comic scenes fly.
It's supposed to be post-feminist breezy but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on Oprah.
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