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The Fluffer

A gay porn movie that cannot rise to the occasion is no more appetising than a limp biscuit. Boogie Nights satirised the industry and became a mainstream hit. The Fluffer looks like it wants to travel all the way, but doesn't. Which is the phony?

Sean (Michael Cunio) is a young reserved kid, who comes to Hollywood to be a cameraman. He ends up working for an independent porn studio, where he falls under the spell of their actor, Johnny Rebel (Scott Gurney) - aka Mickey.

Sean calls himself bisexual, but hasn't a clue, really. Women don't spin him on and men scare him. He has a crush on Mickey and tries to hide it, which means he agonises in isolation.

Mickey does the gay films for money. He is straight, which confuses the issue. His girlfriend is a lap dancer, called Babylon, who becomes pregnant. He freaks out, takes drugs and runs away for a week.

The film cannot make up its mind whether to focus on Sean's rites-of-passage, or Mickey's decline and decline. In the cease it settles for both. Secretly, you sense that it wants to move hard core.

It doesn't. It stays gauche.

Reviewed on: 13 Feb 2002

Gay porn production fails to hand over the goods.

Director:Richard Glatzer, Was

The Fluffer

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    The Fluffer Review

    Sean, a adolescent film graduate, mistakenly rents a copy of Citizen Cum instead of Citizen Kane and becomes obsessed with the delights of gay porn legend, Johnny Rebel, so he tracks him down and lands a job as Johnny's personal fluffer.

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    When Sean (Cunio), a young film graduate, mistakenly rents a copy of Citizen Cum instead of Citizen Kane, he soon becomes obsessed with the delights of gay porn legend, Johnny Rebel (Gurney). He tracks him down and lands a occupation as Johnny's personal fluffer - making sure his hard-on stays that way on set.

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    The Fluffer

    Porn actors are forever talking about the dream of "crossing over" to mainstream moviemaking. It’d be nice if somebody with porn-world experience did cross over, but as a screenwriter. Then maybe some movies which portray the "adult film industry" accurately might hit screens. The Fluffer is a drama of unrequited care for, all about a lonely young gay man who pines for the tough straight guy he can’t ever really have. The fact that the vertical guy in question acts in gay porn for money adds a slight tinge of complication, but the whole package would have played better if the movie had bothered answering some of the questions it delicately raises.

    Sean is an aspiring movie director, who gets a job with Men of Janus films (the "J" is forever organism spray-painted over by vandals), a gay porn corporation. He takes the employment because he’s obsessed/infatuated with Johnny Rebel, one of the company’s major stars. Johnny turns out to be a self-centered, bad-tempered guy with a live-in stripper girlfriend named Babylon, and he’s only doing gay porn for the money. (With his looks and build, he could be doing straight porn,
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    Spoofing the gay porn industry with liberal amounts of camp comedy, Viagra, and Debbie Harry as a seedy club owner, directors Richard Glatzer and Wash West set out to make a far funnier version of "Boogie Nights". What they conclude up with is a movie that's not sure how seriously it wants us to seize it.

    This story of unrequited adore begins with our erstwhile hero Sean (Cunio) renting a copy of his favourite Orson Welles movie at the local video shop but inadvertently organism given "Citizen Cum" instead. Intrigued by the skin flick and, in particular, the rippling muscles of star Johnny Rebel (Gurney), Sean hunts down the production company, Men of Janus (because "Janus was the Roman god of entrances and exits"), and signs up for some serve in order to meet the celestial body. But not only does Johnny change out to be straight - "gay for pay" in industry parlance - he's also a complete bastard, using and abusing anyone he can gain his hands on.

    Although the title might suggest otherwise - the fluffer is the person responsible for getting the performers warmed up for their stint in front of the camera - the film is actually less interested in sex than the mechanics of desire. Trapped by his l