It won me over with its complete lack of timidity and soapbox grandstanding that plague many other gay films.
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03/24/02
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The Fluffer (2001)
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Reviews Counted:44
Fresh:20
Rotten:24
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: Though it begins promisingly enough, The Fluffer eventually descends into melodrama.
Theatrical Release:Nov 16, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: The Fluffer is a movie about obsession, submission, money, and sexuality. The story centers on Johnny Rebel a porn star with a paradox. Although he is a hot-blooded heterosexual male, Johnny... [More]
Starring: Michael Cunio, Deborah Harry, Mickey Cattrell, Guinevere Turner
Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash West
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Reviews for The Fluffer
The film never follows its own logic, but also never goes down the path you think it will
08/19/02
...too much of the lives of the stars of “The Fluffer” and not enough of the examination of the porn business.
07/01/02
"The Fluffer" starts with a bang, but can't quite sustain the expectations it raises.
06/23/02
Begins as a colorful and off-beat comedy about gay hero worship that unfortunately descends into banal melodrama.
10/24/01
The whole package would have played better if the movie had bothered answering some of the questions it delicately raises.
11/13/01
Glatzer and Wash try to explore the nature of obsession and the ambiguity of sexual categories in The Fluffer, but it's hard to give two hoots about any of these characters.
03/22/02
Top CriticSaturated with deep, rich color and low-key visual wit, and graced with sympathetic performances.
09/30/02
Starts off as a spoof of the world of pornographic moviemaking, then smoothly turns into a gripping study of codependency.
01/02/02
a sappy muddle complete with murder, drug addiction, and an abortion -- which is another way to describe this effort.
03/14/02
The story line doesn't always deliver, but performances by Cunio and Gurney keep things interesting.
02/26/02
The third act strives for a debased melancholy and topsy-turvy wisdom only Almodóvar could pull off.
11/13/01
Top CriticThe performances are more than serviceable and The Fluffer is well-paced and engaging until the flaccid climax.
11/16/01
Top CriticJohnny ... remains something of a cipher, and the film mostly shies away from the issues it raises.
02/08/02
Screenwriter and co-director West -- who works in gay porn -- evinces an easy and even-handed familiarity with the milieu, and his characters only occasionally lapse into broad caricature.
11/15/01
Though interesting ideas are at work here and some characters are lively, the film's too uninspired to get anywhere.
01/25/02
Though some may want to tout it as a gay Boogie Nights, The Fluffer does not approach that film's visual verve.
12/20/01
This scrappy little film is informed with a lot of truth about not only the Viagara-ridden porn business, but obsessional human behavior.
12/11/01
More tasteful, sensitive and original than you might imagine.
03/29/02
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